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SOVEREIGN  WOMAN 
VERSUS  MERE  MAN 


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THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

THE  UNIVERSITY 

OF  CALIFORNIA 

LOS  ANGELES 


SOVEREIGN  WOMAN 
VERSUS  MERE  MAN 

A  MEDLEY  OF 
QUOTATIONS 

COMPILED   AND 
ARRANGED  BY 

Jennie  Day  Haines 


PAUL   ELDER  AND   COMPANY 
SAN    FRANCISCO   AND    NEW   YORK 


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Copyright.  1905 
by  Paul  Elder  and  Company 


The  Tomoye  Press 


FN'  , 

Uosf 

While  "  Woman  "  has  ever  been  a 
popular  theme  with  the  world's  writers, 
"  Man "  also  has  had  his  share  of  at- 
tention. A  noted  novelist  has  aptly 
said,  "  Nature  does  not  mean  that  sex 
shall  be  more  than  a  partial  separa- 
tion of  one  common  humanity"; — 
hence,  in  arranging  the  quotations  fcM* 
this  littie  volume,  the  compiler  has  not 
sought  only  to  draw  comparisons,  but 
also  to  find  something  in  common 
between  the  sexes. 


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Contents. 
Sovereign  Woman. 


Mere  Man. 


Page. 

The  Title i 

Origin 2 

"The  Sex" 4 

Heroines 6 

A  Lady 8 

Types lo 

Maidenhood 12 

Spinsters 14 

Wives 16 

Widows 18 

Motherhood 20 

Young  and  Old 22 

Love 24 

Matrimony 26 

Coquetry 28 

Cooking 30 

Servants 32 

Artists 34 

Queens 36 

Stages 38 

Perfection 40 

Looks 42 

Age 44 

Dress 40 

Fads 48 

Sphere .    •• 50 

Fame 52 

Garrulity 54 


Page, 

The  Title i 

Origin 3 

The  "Certaine  Sex" 5 

Heroes 7 

A  Gentleman g 

Types II 

Manhood 13 

Bachelors 15 

Husbands 17 

Widowers 19 

Paternity 21 

Youth  and  Age 23 

Love 25 

Matrimony 27 

Inconstancy 29 

Dining 31 

Wants 33 

35 

37 

39 

41 

43 

45 


Poets 

King^ 

Ages 

Selfishness 

Looks   

Years 

Clothes 47 

Peculiarities 49 

Assurance 51 

Greatness 53 

Garrulity 55 


Sovereign  Woman. 

Page. 

Nationality 56 

Goodness 58 

Badness 60 

Ways 62 

Work 64 

Curiosity 66 

Tears 68 

Bashfulness 7° 

Disparagement 72 

Riches 74 

Will 76 

Rights 78 

The  "New  Woman" 80 

Shopping 82 

Patriotism 84 

Religion 86 

Finis 88 

Epitaph  on  a  Busy  Woman  .    .  9° 


Mere  Man. 

Page. 

Nationality 57 

Goodness 59 

Badness 61 

Ways 63 

Work 65 

Heredity 67 

Tenderness ©9 

Bashfulness 7^ 

Comparison 73 

Riches 75 

Rule 77 

Politics 79 

Dreams 8i 

Speculation 83 

Patriotism 85 

Religion 87 

Finis V  •    •    •  ^9 

Epitaph  on  Man 9^ 


V. 


As  to  the  Title. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


A  woman's  rank  lies  in  the  fulness 
of  her  womanhood.  Therein  alone 
she  is  royal. 

George  Eliot. 


As  to  the  Title. 


Mere  Man. 


There  is  a  strong  presumption  that 
"  Mere  Man  "  so  dubbed  himself  when 
in  one  of  his  many  moods,  and  he  prob- 
ably wanted  something  that  an  hum- 
ble attitude  might  win  the  sooner. 

Sarah  Grand. 


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As  to  Origin.  Sovereign  W^oman. 

The  woman  was  made  of  a  rib  out  of  the  side  of 
Adam.     Not  made  out  of  his  head  to  top  him;  not 
out  of  his  feet  to  be  trampled  upon  by  him;  but  out 
of  his  side  to  be  equal  with  him,  under  his  arm  to  be  I 
protected,  and  near  his  heart  to  be  beloved. 

Matthew  Henry. 

When  Eve  brought  woe  to  all  mankind, 
Old  Adam  called  her  wo-man; 
But  when  she  wooed  with  love  so  kind, 
He  then  pronounced  her  woo-man; 
But  now,  with  folly  and  with  pride, 
Their  husbands'  pockets  trimming, 
The  women  are  so  full  of  whims, 
That  men  pronounce  them  wimmen. 

Anonymous. 

Woman,  they  say,  was  only  made  of  man, 
Methinks  'tis  strange  they  should  be  so  unlike , 
It  may  be  all  the  best  was  cut  away 
To  make  the  woman,  and  the  nought  was  left  behind 

with  him.  Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Origin. 

God  made  man  in  His  own  image,  and  though 
man  spoils  himself  in  the  making,  and  loses  his  pro- 
per pattern  and  falls  out  of  shape,  the  original  mould 
is  not  broken  yet — nor  never  will  be,  trust  the  Lxjrd 

for  that.  Ellen  Thorneycroft  Fowler. 

Our  grandsire,  ere  of  Eve  possess'd 

Alone,  and  e'en  in  Paradise  unblest. 

With  mournful  looks  the  blissfiil  scenes  survey'd, 

And  wandered  in  the  solitary  shade ; 

The  Maker  saw,  took  pity  and  bestow'd 

Woman,  the  last,  the  best  reserv'd  of  God. 

Alexander  Pope. 

When  Eve  upon  the  first  of  men 
The  apple  pressed  with  specious  cant. 

Oh,  what  a  thousand  pities  then 
That  Adam  was  not  Adamant! 

Thomas  Hood. 

I  think  God  found  his  finest  nature  unemployed  on 
the  making  of  Adam,  and  so  poor  Eve  was  sacrificed 

to  its  expression.  Mary  Adams. 


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As  to  the  Sex. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


By  the  unanimous  consent  of  rhetoricians,  there 
is  but  one  sex :  the  sex,  the  fair  sex,  the  unfair  sex,  the 
gentle  sex,  the  barbaric  sex.  "We  men  do  not  form  a 
sex,  we  do  not  even  form  a  sect.  We  are  your  mere 
hangers-on,  camp-followers,  satellites — your  things, 
your  playthings  —  we  are  the  mere  shuttlecocks  which 
you  toss  hither  and  thither  with  your  battledores,  as 
the  wanton  mood  impels  you.  We  are  bom  of  woman, 
v/e  are  swaddled  and  nursed  by  woman,  we  are  gov- 
emessed  by  woman,  consequently  we  are  beguiled  by 
woman,  fooled  by  woman,  led  on,  put  off,  tantalized 
by  woman,  fretted  and  bullied  by  her;  finally,  last 
scene  of  all,  we  are  wrapped  in  our  cerements  by  wo- 
man.    Man's  life,  birth,  death  turn  upon  woman  as 

upon  a  hinge.  Henry  Harland. 

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Dante  adored  woman;  W^ordsworth  commended 
her;  Shakespeare  loved  her;  Tolstoi  planted  her  in 
sunshine  and  watered  her  with  his  tears,  only  to  tear 
her  up  by  the  roots  at  last;  Bums  smiled  at  her; 
Moore  succumbed  to  her;  Henry  James  studies  her; 
Maupassant  thinks  her  wicked  but  interesting;  Bour- 
get  dissects  her;  Balzac  understands  her. 

Alice  Wellington  Rollins. 


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Mere  Men. 


As  to  the  "Certaine"  Sex. 


There  was  ( not  certaine  when )  a  certaine  preacher 
That  never  learned  and  yet  became  a  teacher, 
Who  having  read  in  Latine  thus  a  text 
Of  erat  quidam  homo,  much  perplext, 
He  seemed  the  same  with  studie  great  to  scan, 
In  English  thus,  There  was  a  certaine  man. 
"But  now"  (quoth  he),  "good  people,  note  you  this, 
He  saith  there  was,  he  doth  not  say  there  is; 
For  in  these  daies  of  ours  it  is  most  plaine 
Of  promise,  oath,  word,  deed,  no  man's  certaine; 
Yet  by  my  text  you  see  it  comes  to  passe 
That  surely  once  a  certaine  man  there  was: 
But  yet,  I  think  in  all  your  Bible  no  man 
Can  finde  this  text,   There  was  a  certaine 


woman. 


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Sir  John  Harrington. 


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There  are  a  thousand  kinds  of  men,  and  their 
sense  of  things  is  various;  each  has  his  own  inclina- 
tion, nor  do  all  live  for  the  same  object.         Persius. 


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.••••v.' 


As  to  Heroines. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


Woman  is  especially  endowed  to  soothe  disaster. 
She  is  called  the  weaker  vessel,  but  all  profane  as 
well  as  sacred  history  attests  that  when  the  crisis 
comes  she  is  better  prepared  than  man  to  meet  the 
emergency.  How  often  have  you  seen  a  woman 
who  seemed  to  be  a  disciple  of  frivolity  and  indolence, 
who  under  one  stroke  of  calamity  changed  to  be  a 
heroine !  .  .  .  There  are  scores  and  hundreds  of 
households  today  where  as  much  bravery  and  cour- 
age are  demanded  of  women  as  was  exhibited  by 
(S'ace  Darling,  Marie  Antoinette,  or  Joan  of  Arc. 

T.  Dewitt  Talmadge. 

There  never  seem  to  be  any  plain  heroines  except 

Jane  Eyre.  Mary  MacLane. 

What  will  not  woman,  gentle  woman,  dare, 
When  strong  affection  stirs  her  spirit  up  ? 

Robert  Southey. 

It  takes  a  heroine  to  be  economical. 

Dinah  Maria  Mulock. 

Shakespeare  has  no  heroes ;  he  has  only  heroines. 

John  Rusldn. 


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Merc  Man. 


As  to  Heroes. 


I  have  read  in  the  story-bcxjks  how  men  of  great 
nerve  and  skill  have  slaughtered  five  to  one,  escaping 
with  no  great  loss  of  blood.  W^ell,  of  a  brave  man 
I  like  to  believe  good  things.  My  own  eyes  have 
seen  what  has  made  me  slow  to  doubt  a  story  of 
prowess  that  has  even  the  merit  of  possibility.  But 
when  there  are  only  two  of  you,  and  one  without 
arms,  and  you  are  in  a  comer,  and  there  are  ten  pis- 
tols pointing  at  you  a  few  feet  apart,  and  as  many 
sabres  ready  to  be  drawn,  I  see  no  power  less 
remarkable  than  that  of  God  or  a  novelist  can  bring 
you  out  of  your  difficulty.  You  have  your  choice  of 
two  evils — surrender,  or  be  cut  in  pieces. 

Irving  Bacheller. 

Now  there  is  no  time  when  a  man  is  so  anxious 
for  a  fight,  as  just  after  the  enemy  have  run  away ; 
he  is  like  a  hunter  that  has  had  a  shot  and  missed 
his  bird.  e.  j.  stimson. 

"When  a  man  deliberately  elects  a  great  personal 
sacrifice,  he  does  not  concern  himself  with  its  details, 
as  women  are  more  likely  to  do. 

Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps. 


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As  to  a  Lady. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


To  a  gentleman  every  woman  is  a  lady  in  right 

of  her  sex.  Bulwer  Lytton. 

A  true  lady — a  genuine  society  queen — ^represents 
modesty,  and  sweetness,  and  self-control.  She  is 
evolved  by  gradual  processes  from  generation  to 
generation — not  ready-made.  Robert  Grant. 

A  real  fine  lady  does  not  wear  clothes  that  flare 
in  people's  eyes,  or  use  importunate  scents,  or  make 
a  noise  as  she  moves ;  she  is  something  refined,  and 
graceful,  and  charming,  and  never  obtrusive. 

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Woman"   must   ever  be   a   woman's   highest 
name,  and  honors  more  than  "  Lady  "  if  I  know  right. 

Walter  Von  der  Vogelweide. 


God  made  the  woman  and  money  the  lady. 

Israel  Zangwill. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  a  Gentleman. 


It  is  almost  a  definition  of  a  gentleman  to  say  he 
is  one  who  never  inflicts  pain.  cardinal  Newman. 

The  gentleman  is  a  man  of  truth,  lord  of  his  own 
actions,  and  expressing  that  lordship  in  his  behavior, 
not  in  any  manner  dependent  and  servile  either  on 
persons,  or  opinions,  or  possessions. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

A  gentleman  is  a  fellow  who  doesn't  undertake  a 
thing  unless  he  can  see  it  through  in  proper  style. 

John  Oliver  Hobbes  (Mrs.  Craigie). 

A  gentleman  is  a  man  who  looks  and  acts  like  a 
gentleman,  even  when  he  isn't  dressed  like  a  gentle- 
man. Selected. 

A  gentleman  is  a  person  gifted  with  tact,  kind- 
ness, knowledge  of  the  world,  and  courtesy. 

Jane  MacNeal. 

When  Adam  dolve,  and  Eve  span, 
Wlio  was  then  the  gentleman  ? 

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Wat  Tyler's  Rebellion,  reign  of  Richard  II. 


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As  to  Types. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


I  have  met  with  women  whom  I  really  think 
would  like  to  be  married  to  a  Poem,  and  to  be  given 
away  by  a  Novel.  john  Keats. 

It  is  the  popular  women  who  make  shipwreck  of 
their  lives,  and  the  unpopular  ones  who  sail  safely 
into  pleasant  havens.  My  experience  is  that  the 
attractive  woman  gets  the  nice  little  things  and  the 
unattractive  ones  the  nice  big  things  in  this  world. 

Ellen  Thomeycroft  Fowler. 

Why  should  a  woman  with  a  comfortable  home, 
a  good  husband  and  sweet  children  permit  the  demon 
of  unrest  to  enter  her  mind  and  destroy  her  peace, 
because  she  cannot  astonish  the  world  with  splendid 
toilets,  and  entertain  her  friends  in  a  villa  at  New- 
port, or  buy  a  castle  in  Europe,  as  some  of  our  multi- 
millionaires are  doing  ?  Ella  Wheeler  wacox. 

It  is  an  uncommon  event  to  meet  a  woman  who, 
if  put  into  the  confessional  of  conscience,  would  not 
own  that  at  some  period  of  her  life  she  had  wished 
she  had  been  bom  a  boy.  Marian  Hariand. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Types. 


A  sceptic  is  a  man  who  believes  neither  in  doctors 
nor  lawyers — so  long  as  he  is  enjoying  good  health 

and  his  debtors  are  few.  NeUie  Cravey  GiUmore. 

A  lawyer — a  gentleman  who  rescues  your  estate 
from  your  enemies,  and  keeps  its  himself. 

Lord  Brougham. 

A  wit — a  man  who  says  things  about  other  peo- 
ple that  they  are  too  polite  to  say  about  him. 

James  Jay  O'Connell. 

A  bore — the  man  who  talks  of  himself,  while  you 
want  to  talk  of  yourself.  selected. 

Philosopher  ?  a  fingering  slave ! 

One  that  would  peep  and  botanize 
Upon  his  mother's  grave. 

William  Wordsworth. 

"You  know  who  critics  are?" — the  men   who 
have  failed  in  literature  and  art.         Benjamin  Disraeli. 

Men  will  be  men.    .    .    .    They  are  divided  into 
two  classes — the  found-out  and  the  not-found  out. 

Julian  Ralph. 


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As  to  Maidenhood.  Sovereign  Woman. 

There  is  something  inscrutably  delightful  about  a 
girl's  way  of  thinking  one  thing  and  doing  another. 
Perversity,  thy  name  is  maidenhood;  and  maiden- 
hood, thy  name  is  delicious  inconsequence. 


Maurice  Thompson. 


Girlhood. 


An  exquisite  incompleteness,  blossom  foreshadowing 
fruit; 
A  sketch  faint  in  its  beauty,  with  promise  of  future 
worth; 
A  plant  with  some  leaves  unfolded,  and  tne  rest  asleep 
at  its  root, 
To  deck  with  their  future  sweetness  the  fairest 
thing  on  the  earth. 

Womanhood,  wifehood,  motherhood — each  a  possible 
thing. 
Dimly  seen  through  the  silence  that  lies  between 
then  and  now; 
Something  of  each  and  all  has  woven  a  magic  ring, 
Linking  the  three  together  in  glory  on  girlhood's 

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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Manhood. 


"But  a  man's  a  man,  not  a  post  or  a  holy  angel; 
us  wouldn't  hear  such  a  deal  about  angels'  tempers, 
either,  if  they'd  got  to  face  all  us  have." 

Eden  Phillpotta. 

A  fool  and  a  wise  man  are  alike  both  in  the  start- 
ing-place— their  birth,  and  at  the  post — their  death; 
only  they  differ  in  the  race  of  their  lives. 

Thomas  Fuller. 

What  tho'  on  hamely  fare  we  dine, 
Wear  hodden-gray,  and  a'  that; 
Gie  fools  their  silks,  and  knaves  their  wine, 
A  man's  a  man,  for  a'  that; 
For  a'  that  and  a'  that 
Their  tinsel  show,  and  a'  that; 
The  honest  man,  tho'  e'er  sae  poor. 

Is  king  O'  men  for  a'  that.  Robert  Bums. 

The  thing  which  impresses  one  most  and  fills  one 
with  the  greatest  respect  for  man  is  the  courage  with 
which  he  faces  life.  Day  after  day  the  working  man 
in  all  classes  of  society,  on  whom  a  family  depends, 
faces  life  far  too  often  with  the  trials  intensified  by 
fear  that  the  strength  which  means  bread  may  give 

out.  Sarah  Grand. 


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As  to  Spinsters. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


Among  our  industrial  and  frugal  forefathers  it 
was  a  maxim  that  a  young  woman  should  not  be 
married  until  she  had  spun  herself  a  set  of  body,  bed, 
and  table  linen.  From  this  custom  all  unmarried 
women  were  termed  "  Spinsters,"  an  appellation  they 
still  retain  in  all  legal  proceedings.  selected. 

There  is  no  use  in  saying  that  any  particular  girl 
is  a  spinster  from  necessity  rather  than  choice.  One 
has  but  to  look  at  the  peculiar  specimens  of  woman- 
kind who  have  married  to  be  certain  that  there  is  no 
one  on  the  wide  earth  who  could  not  do  so  if  she 

chose.  Myrtle  Reed. 

A  woman  with  fair  opportunities  and  without  an 
absolute  hump  may  marry  whom  she  likes. 

William  Makepeace  Thackeray. 

Here  lies  Anne  Mann !    She  lived  an 
Old  maid  and  died  an  old  Mann. 

Epitaph  at  Bath  Abbey. 


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Merc  Man. 


As  to  Bachelors. 


An  unmarried  man  is  but  half  of  a  perfect  being, 
and  it  requires  the  other  half  to  make  things  right ; 
and  it  cannot  be  expected  that  in  this  imperfect  state 
he  can  keep  the  straight  path  of  rectitude  any  more 
than  a  boat  with  one  oar  or  a  bird  with  one  wing  can 
keep  a  straight  course.  vouaire. 

He  that  said  it  was  not  good  for  man  to  be  alone, 
placed  the  celibate  amongst  the  inferior  states  of  per- 
fection. Boyig 

The  men  who  refrain  from  marriage  because  they 
doubt  their  fitness  for  it,  either  on  financial  or  philo- 
sophic grounds,  would  be  likely,  if  married,  to  make 
the  best  husbands.  j.  h.  Browne. 

I  can  fancy  nothing  more  cruel  after  a  long,  easy 
life  of  bachelorhood  than  to  have  to  sit  day  after  day 
with  a  dull,  handsome  woman  opposite. 

William  Makepeace  Thackeray. 

Is  the  single  man  therefore  blessed?    No! 

Shakespeare. 

Liberty,  Equality,  Fraternity, — they  are  only  pos- 
sible for  the  bachelor.  winston  churchiu. 


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As  to  Wives. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


One  word  can  charm  all  wrcwigs  away — 
The  sacred  name  of  Wife. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

The  girl  with  the  curly  hair  and  the  dimples,  and 
the  genius  for  apple-duff  may  make  a  very  good  wife; 
but  these  points  will  not  be  a  vital  factor  in  her  suc- 
cess. Neither  will  a  great  fortune  or  superior  social 
position  of  itself  make  life  with  her  for  fifty  years 

^^^^'  Lavinia  Hart. 


Oh,  wretched  is  the  dame  to  whom  the  sound 
"Your  lord  will  soon  return,"  no  pleasure  brings! 

Charles  Maturin. 

I  tell  you  the  women  who  make  fervent  wives, 

And  sweet,  tender  mothers,  had  Fate  been  less  fair, 

Are  the  women  who  might  have  abandoned  their  lives 

To  the  madness  that  springs  from  and  ends  in 

despair. 

As  the  fire  on  the  hearth  which  sheds  brightness 

around. 
Neglected,  may  level  the  avails  to  the  ground. 

Ella  Wheeler  Wilcox. 


Mere  Man.  As  to  Husbands. 

The  lover  in  the  husband  may  be  lost. 

Lord  Ljrttleton. 

The  ideal  wife  does  not  make  the  ideal  husband. 
When  man  reaches  a  marriageable  age  his  habits 
have  taken  firm  root,  and  his  tendencies  are  so  closely 
knit  they  admit  of  little  stretching.  But  the  ideal  wife 
has  a  great  deal  to  do  with  the  ideal  husband  of  the 
future;  for  mothers  are  the  women  who  make  men. 

Lavinia  Hart. 

As  the  husband  is,  the  wife  is — 
Thou  art  mated  with  a  clown. 

And  the  coarseness  of  his  nature 

Will  have  weight  to  drag  thee  down. 

Alfred  Tennyson. 

The  happy  married  man  dies  in  good  style  at 
home,  surrounded  by  his  weeping  wife  and  children. 
The  old  bachelor  don't  die  at  all — he  sort  of  rots  away, 

like  a  pollyWOg'S  tail.  Artemus  ward. 

"Some  men  who  marry  and  settle  down  would 
have  done  the  world  more  good  had  they  remained 
single  and  settled  up." 


As  to  Widows. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  Almighty  God  seems 
to  like  widows  better  than  wives.  The  wives  men- 
tioned in  the  Scriptures,  from  Eve  down  to  Sapphira, 
are,  with  notoriously  few  exceptions,  obnoxious;  they 
are  always  jealous,  or  deceitful,  or  suspicious,  or  mer- 
cenary, or  unfaithful,  or  intriguing.  But  the  widows 
are  invariably  kind  and  lovely. 

John  Oliver  Hobbes  (Mrs.  Craigie). 

You  may  love  a  simple  maiden, 

And  in  time  may  marry  her; 
But  to  wed  a  widow,  gay  or  staid, 

Is  a  thing  that  can't  occur — 
For  the  widow  is  of  sterner  stuff, 

And  you'll  find  it  pretty  true — 
You  can  wed  a  maid  all  right  enough. 

But  a  widow  marries  you !       -smart  set." 

How  does  a  woman  feel  when  she  is  making  her 
wedding-clothes  for  the  second  time,  for  another  man? 

Jaoies  Lane  Allen. 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Widowers. 


A  widower  who  remarries  invariably  reminds  his 
friends  that  children  should  be  brought  up  under  the 
sweet  and  beneficial  care  of  a  woman,  and  he  tells 
them  that  he  remarries  to  give  a  mother  to  his  dear 
little  ones — nine  times  out  of  ten,  an  indifferent  one, 
and  not  unfrequently  a  bad  one.  If  he  has  no  children 
he  says  he  is  so  lonely  that  he  must  have  a  companion, 
also  a  housekeeper,  and  he  gives  you  to  understand 
all  this  is  en  tout  bien  honneur.  j^^  o"R&n 

Why  is  a  widower  like  a  baby? 

Because  he  cries  a  good  deal  for  the  first  six 
months;  during  the  next  six,  he  begins  to  take  notice, 
and  finds  it  very  hard  to  get  over  the  second  summer. 

Conundrum. 

"Don't  fool  with  widowers,  grass  nor  sod." 

Alice  Hegan  Rice. 


As  to  Motherhood.  Sovereign  Woman. 

"Women  know 
The  way  to  rear  up  children  ( to  be  just ) — 
They  know  a  simple,  tender,  merry  knack 
Of  tjdng  sashes,  fitting  baby  shoes, 
And  stringing  pretty  words  that  make  no  sense, 
And  kissing  full  sense  into  empty  words : 
WTiich  things  are  corals  to  cut  Ufe  upon — 

Although  such  trifles.  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning. 

WTiat  are  Raphael's  Madonnas  but  the  shadow  of 
a  mother's  love  fixed  in  permanent  outline  forever! 

Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson. 

They  say  that  man  is  mighty, 

He  governs  land  and  sea; 
He  wields  a  mighty  sceptre 

O'er  the  lesser  powers  that  be ; 
But  a  mightier  power  and  stronger 

Man  fi-om  his  throne  has  hurled, 
And  the  hand  that  rocks  the  cradle 

Is  the  hand  that  rules  the  world. 

William  Ross  Wallace. 

We  have  got  over  thinking  that  the  mother  has 
all  the  love  and  the  father  all  the  intelligence. 

Mrs.  Bixrdette. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Paternity. 


The  sacredness  of  a  father's  love  and  sorrow  never 
is  recognized  as  is  the  mother's.  *  *  *  "  W^ould  to  God 
that  I  had  died  for  thee,  O  Absalom,  my  son,  my  son!" 
cried  mighty  David,  in  his  agony  of  grief;  and  today, 
in  any  thoroughfare  through  which  we  pass,  men  go 
about  their  daily  avocations  with  such  steadfast  cour- 
age as  they  may,  whose  hearts  echo  this  bitter  wail 

in  silence.  Mrs.  James  Farley  Cox. 

And  if  there  be  love  in  this  world  stronger  and 
sweeter  than  that  of  a  father  for  his  little  daughter, 
no  one  has  yet  discovered  it.  For  it  is  the  ineffable 
mother-love  shorn  of  all  domestic  exigencies  and  social 
frets — love  that  yet  has  not  even  contemplated  the 
future,  but  is  blissfully  content  with  the  joy  of  the 

present  hour.  Amelia  E.  Barr. 

If  a  man  who  turnips  cries, 
V    Cries  not  when  his  father  dies, 
'Tis  a  proof  that  he  had  rather 
Have  a  turnip  than  his  father. 

Samuel  Johnson. 


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As  to  Young  and  Old    Sovereign  Woman. 

As  I  am  fonder  of  little  girls  than  I  am  of  boys,  so 
old  ladies  appeal  to  me  more  than  old  men.  They  fill 
a  place  in  life  that  would  be  quite  bare  without  them. 
There  is  a  certain  something  about  them  quite  inde- 
scribable. They  make  much  of  the  mellowness  of 
life,  and  not  a  little  of  its  fragrance.  Some  of  them 
have  a  beauty  with  which  the  beauty  of  the  most 
radiant  belle  can  hardly  compare. 

Thomas  Nelson  Page. 

There  is  always  something  pathetic  in  the  adora- 
tion of  a  young  girl  for  an  older  woman;  she  gives  so 
much,  and  can,  of  necessity,  receive  so  little;  yet,  with 
the  exception  of  motherhood,  it  is  perhaps  the  most 
unselfish  affection  which  a  woman's  life  can  hold. 

Ellen  Thorneycroft  Fowler. 

"There  is  one  thing  about  modem  society  that 
puzzles  me,"  said  the  philosopher. 

"What's  that?" 

"  The  older  women  are  all  the  time  anxious  to  get 
in ;  the  young  and  pretty  ones  want  to  come  out." 

"  Smart  Set." 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Youth  and  Age. 

The  old  man  looks  down  and  thinks  of  the  past ; 
The  young  man  looks  up  and  thinks  of  the  future ; 
The  child  looks  everywhere  and  thinks  of  nothing. 

Selected. 

Young  men  soon  give  and  soon  forget  affronts ; 

old  age  is  slow  in  both.  Joseph  Addison. 

Manhood,  when  verging  into  age,  grows  thought- 
ful. Capel  Lofft. 

Men  of  age  object  too  much,  consult  too  long,  ad- 
venture too  little,  repent  too  soon,  and  seldom  drive 
business  home  to  the  full  period,  but  content  them- 
selves with  a  mediocrity  of  success.  Francis  Bacon 

Young  men  think  old  men  fools,  and  old  men  know 

young  men  to  be  so.  ^^^^^^  ^y  Camden  as  a  Saymg  of 

Dr.  Metcalf. 

Money  is  time ;  the  millionaire  is  your  only  Me- 
thuselah. Israel  Zang^vill. 

To  be  seventy  years  young  is  sometimes  far 
more  cheerful  and  hopeful  than  to  be  forty  years  old. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


As  to  Love.  Sovereign  Woman. 

A  woman  happily  in  love  is  at  her  best.  Every 
outward  charm  has  an  added  glory,  and  every  poten- 
tiality of  her  soul,  heart,  conscience  and  intellect  is 
aroused.  The  plainest,  so  influenced,  will  appear 
almost  beautiful,  the  dullest  gain  a  kind  of  wit,  the 
coldest  can  be  kind.    They  are  transfigured,  glorified, 

inspired  beings.  jo^n  Oliver  Hobbes  ( Mrs.  Craigie ) . 

The  average  woman  loves  a  man,  aside  jfrom  his 
love  for  her,  for  his  physical  strength,  and  his  stiff 
truth-telling.  The  first  is  attractive  to  her  because  she 
has  it  not.   Far  be  it  from  man  to  say  why  the  second 

attracts.  Paul  Leicester  Ford. 

Woman  is  bom  for  love,  and  it  is  impossible  to 
turn  her  from  seeking  it.  Margaret  FuUer. 

That  tender  light  that  never  was  on  sea  or  land 
dawns  only  on  a  woman's  face  when  her  soul  is 

awakening  to  love.  Amelia  E.  Barr. 

Woman's  love  is  but  an  echo,  and  her  heart  only 
whispers  the  word  in  answer  to  a  man's  voice. 

Maud  Wilder  Goodwin. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Love. 


Men  in  love  labour  at  once  under  every  disadvan- 
tage. Their  judgment  is  dethroned;  their  strength 
mocks  them;  their  associates  complain  of  their  wan- 
dering tempers;  they  get  haggard  and  feel  hunted; 
they  pursue  their  Fairs  and  are  pursued  themselves 
by  all  the  devils.  A  hungry  madness  absorbs  their 
energy ;  tliey  are  capable  of  any  crazy  deed. 

John  Oliver  Hobbes  (Mrs.  Craigie). 

Men  are  singularly  unoriginal  when  they  make 
love  or  pray.  Women  and  the  Deity  have  been  per- 
petually hearing  the  same  thing  from  the  beginning 

of  space.  Author  "  The  Story  of  Eden." 

When  a  man  has  never  been  in  love  before,  there 
is  only  one  thing  more  exquisite  than  the  torment — it 

is  the  joy.  Francis  Charles. 

A  man  may  love  a  woman  who  has  sinned,  but 
few  men  love  women  who  sin  for  their  sake,  even 
though  that  sin  be  of  their  own  compassing. 

Maxwell  Gray. 


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As  to  Matrimony.  Sovereign  Woman. 

Some  women  in  manying  demand  all  and  give 
all:  with  good  men,  they  are  the  happy;  with  base 
men,  they  are  the  broken-hearted.  Some  demand 
everything  and  give  little :  with  weak  men,  they  are 
tyrants;  with  strong  men,  they  are  the  divorced. 
Some  demand  little  and  give  all:  with  congenial  souls, 
they  are  already  in  heaven;  with  uncongenial,  they 
are  soon  in  their  graves.  Some  give  little  and  demand 
little:  they  are  the  heartless,  and  they  bring  neither 
the  joy  of  life  nor  the  peace  of  death. 

James  Lane  Allen. 

Let  still  the  woman  take 
An  elder  than  herself;  so  wears  she  to  him, 
So  sways  she  level  in  her  husband's  heart. 

Shakespeare. 

She  that  with  poetry  is  won 

Is  but  a  desk  to  write  upon. 

And  what  men  say  of  her  they  mean 

No  more  than  on  the  thing  they  lean. 

Samuel  Butler. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Matrimony. 


The  man  who  marries  puts  himself  in  irons.  Mar- 
riage is  a  bird-cage  in  a  garden.  The  birds  without 
hanker  to  get  in ;  but  the  birds  within  know  that  there 
is  no  condition  so  enviable  as  that  of  the  birds  with- 
out. Henry  Harland. 

As  for  marriage — these  young  men  who  have  the 
world,  or  the  better  part  of  it— they  marry  where  Cu- 
pidity, not  Cupid,  leads  them.  Amelia  E.  Barr. 

Who  ever  invented  the  word  "honeymoon"?  Some 
man,  I  am  sure.     He  never  tasted  myrrh  in  it. 

Mary  Adams. 

There  are  many  instances  of  immoral  men  who 
have  led  pure  lives  after  marriage,  but  there  never 
was  an  instance  of  a  man  who  could  drop  the  ear- 
marks of  a  dissolute  life  at  the  altar.        Lavinia  Hart. 

The  extreme  penalty  for  bigamy  is  the  plurality 
of  mothers-in-law,  which  it  necessitates. 

Nellie  Cravey  Gillmore. 


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As  to  Coquetry.  Sovereign  Woman. 

Any  woman  who  wilfully  allows  sui  offer  of  mar- 
riage only  to  refute  it,  lowers  not  only  herself  but  her 
whole  sex  for  a  long,  long  time  after  in  her  lover's 

eyes.  Dina  Maria  Mulock. 

The  life  of  a  coquette  is  very  like  that  of  a  drunk- 
ard or  an  opium-eater,  and  the  end  is  the  same, — the 
utter  extinction  of  intellect,  of  cheerfulness,  of  gener- 
ous feeHng,  and  of  self-respect.  ^nna  Jameson. 

A  Coquette — 
Or  light  or  dark,  or  short  or  tall, 
She  sets  a  spring  to  snare  them  all ; 
All's  one  to  her, — above  her  fan 
She'd  make  sweet  eyes  at  Caliban. 

Thomas  Bail«y  Aldrich. 

There  are  few  daughters  of  Eve  to  whom  conquest 
does  not  seem  a  finer  thing  than  humility ;  and  the 
sovereignty  of  Diane  de  Poitiers  over  a  king  seems  to 
many  a  girl  just  conscious  of  her  own  charm,  a  more 
emphatic  testimony  of  the  supremacy  of  her  sex  than 
the  angel's  greeting  of  "Blessed  art  thou!"  to  the 
elected  Virgin  of  the  world.  Mane  corem. 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Inconstancy. 

Men  were  deceivers,  ever.     Shakespeare. 

Beware  of  loving  a  man.  Today  he  says,  "  I  love 
you,  I  need  you!  I  shall  go  to  the  devil  vinthout  you!" 
Tomorrow  he  turns  to  his  affairs.  In  six  months  he 
sajrs,  "I  was  a  fool!"  Next  year  he  says,  "Who  was 
it  that  drove  me  wild  for  a  time  last  year?  W^hat  was 

her  name .  y^^^^  HanweU  Cather^ood. 

Of  course,  there  are  exceptions,  but  the  jilts  and 
the  defaulters  are  not  all  feminine.  ^  g.  Martin. 

Railway  companies  and  women  are  by  many 
looked  upon  as  fair  game  of  deception.  Consciences 
tender  in  many  other  respects  have  a  subtile  contempt 
for  these  two  exceptions.  Many  a  so-called  honest 
man  travels  gaily  in  a  first-class  carriage  with  a 
second-class  ticket,  and  lies  to  a  woman  at  each  end 
of  his  journey  without  as  much  as  casting  a  shadow 

on  his  conscience.  Henry  Seton  Merriman. 





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As  to  Cooking.  Sovereign  Woman. 

Who  hath  not  met  with  home-made  bread, — 

A  heavy  compound  of  putty  and  lead, — 

And  home-made  wines  that  rack  the  head. 

And  home-made  liqueurs  and  waters. 

Home-made  pop  that  will  not  foam, 

And  home-made  dishes  that  drive  one  from  home, 

Not  to  name  each  mess. 

For  the  face  or  dress. 
Home-made  by  the  homely  daughters? 

Thomas  Hood. 

She  cooketh  best  who  knoweth  best 

Of  all  things,  great  and  small. 
And  the  same  mind  that  learning  grasps 

Can  cook,  housekeep,  and  all.  selected. 

No  woman  need  envy  the  Sphinx  her  wisdom,  if 
she  has  learned  the  uses  of  silence,  and  never  asks  a 
favour  of  a  hungry  man.  Myrtle  Reed. 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Dining. 

All  human  history  attests 
That  happiness  for  man — the  hungry  sinner ! 
Since  Eve  ate  apples,  much  depends  on  dinner. 

Lord  Byron. 

He  was  an  ingenious  man  that  first  found  out  eat- 
ing and  drinking.  Dean  swift. 

.  .  .  But  civilized  man  cannot  live  without  cooks. 

He  may  live  without  books, — what  is  knowledge  but 
grieving? 

He  may  live  without  hope, — what  is  hope  but  deceiv- 
ing? 

He  may  live  without  love, — what  is  passion  but  pin- 
ing? 

But  where  is  the  man  that  can  live  without  dining? 

Owen  Meredith. 

At  no  other  time  is  a  man's  feeling  of  companion- 
ship with  a  woman  so  strong  as  when  he  sits  at  table 
wifii  her — ^not  a  decorated  and  becatered  and  be- 
waitered  table,  but  at  a  homely,  appetizing,  whole- 
some home  table.  Booth  Tarklngton. 

A  man  is  in  general  better  pleased  when  he  has  a 
good  dinner  than  when  his  wife  talks  Greek. 

Samuel  Johnson. 


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As  to  Servants. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


There  is  probably  no  one  in  the  civilized  world 
more  proud  of  the  possession  of  a  domestic  servant 
than  the  American  woman  who  has  never  had  one, 
and  no  one  more  prompt  to  consign  her  to  the  obscu- 
rity of  the  kitchen  after  a  feeble  pretense  of  making 
her  feel  at  home.  ^^^^  g,,„,. 

Her  maids  were  old,  and  if  she  took  a  new  one 
You  might  be  sure  she  was  a  perfect  fright. 
She  did  this  even  during  her  husband's  life; 
I  recommend  as  much  to  any  wife. 

Lord  Byron. 

Woman  and  wages  as  a  social  and  economic  ques- 
tion is  one  of  burning  interest ;  but  over  against  this 
stands  tlie  great  work  of  woman  without  wages,  the 
vast  amount  of  service  rendered  without  pay  or  even 
any  thought  of  it, — work  in  the  world's  great  pliilan- 

Cooks  I  have  found  to  be  the  best  of  all  subjects — 
the  most  phlegmatic  flush  into  life  at  the  mere  word, 
and  the  joys  and  sufferings  connected  with  them  are 
experiences  common  to  us  all. 

Author  "  Elizabeth  and  Her  German  Garden." 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  W^ants. 

Man  wants  but  little  here  below 
Nor  wants  that  little  long. 

Oliver  Goldsmith. 

"  Man  wants  but  little  here  below 

Nor  wants  that  little  long": 
'Tis  not  with  me  exactly  so. 

But  'tis  so  in  the  song. 
My  wants  are  many,  and,  if  told, 

Would  muster  many  a  score, 
And  were  each  wish  a  mint  of  gold 

I  still  should  long  for  more. 

John  Quincy  Adams. 

Little  I  ask ;  my  wants  are  few : 

I  only  wish  a  hut  of  stone 
(A  very  plain  brown  stone  will  do) 

That  I  may  call  my  own ; 
And  close  at  hand  is  such  a  one, 
In  yonder  street  that  fronts  the  sun. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


As  to  Artists.  Sovereign  Woman, 

Genius  has  no  sex, — I  defy  any  one  to  distinguish 
between  two  canvasses,  one  of  which  shall  be  the 
production  of  a  woman,  and  the  other  of  a  man. 

WiUiam  M.  Chase. 


Woman  is  naturally  more  artistic  in  her  tastes 
than  man,  and  it  would  seem  that  man  must  become 
somewhat  womanly  (not  effeminate)  in  order  to  be 
artistic. 


Selected. 


No  man  was  ever  known  to  admit,  even  in  thought, 
that  a  woman  can  do  better  things  in  art  than  him- 
self! If  a  masculine  creature  draws  a  picture  on  a 
paving-stone  he  will  assure  himself  in  his  own  Ego, 
that  it  is  really  much  more  meritorious,  simply  as 
"man's  work,"  than  the  latest  triumph  of  a  Rosa 

Bonheur.  Mane  Corelli. 

And  that  is  what  I  call  woman's  genius,  to  make 
life  beautiful,  to  keep  down  and  out  of  sight  the  hard, 
dry,  prosaic  side,  and  keep  up  the  poetry — that  is  my 
idea  of  our  "  mission."  I  think  women  ought  to  be 
what  Hawthorne  calls  "The  Artist  of  the  Beautiful." 


Hsuriet  Beecher  Stowe. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Poets. 


A  poet  may  be  a  good  companion,  but,  so  far  as  I 
know,  he  is  ever  the  worst  of  fathers.  Even  as  grand- 
father, he  is  too  near,  for  one  poet  can  lay  a  streak  of 
poverty  over  three  generations. 


Irving  Bacheller. 


Was  ever  there  a  true  lyric  poet  who  did  not  at 
least  once  in  his  early  days  believe  himself  the  victim 
of  a  heartless  woman  ?  p  ^^^„„  ^^^^^^^^ 

Poets  are  all  who  love,  who  feel  great  truths 
And  tell  them ;  and  the  truth  of  truths  is  love. 

Philip  James  Bailey. 

Most  wretched  men 
Are  cradled  into  poetry  by  wrong; 
They  learn  in  suffering  what  they  teach  in  song. 

Percy  Bysahe  Shelley. 

Poets  utter  great  and  wise  things  which  they  do 
not  themselves  understand.  ^i  , 

Plato. 

The  ancient  British  bards  had  for  the  title  of  their 
order,  "Those  who  are  free  throughout  the  world." 

Ralph  W^aldo  Emerson.  I 


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As  to  Queens. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


Victoria  was  the  uncrowned  Queen  of  the  whole 
world.  Ascending  the  throne  in  her  teens,  she  then 
displayed  the  qualities  which  have  marked  her  entire 
reign — the  simplicity,  modesty,  graciousness  and  ve- 
racity of  true  womanhood.  Victoria  never  forgot  the 
woman  in  the  Queen.  She  represented  in  her  life  not 
the  royalty  of  a  monarch,  but  the  royalty  of  true 

womanhood.  j^geph  SUverman. 

"France  has  had  sixty-seven  queens,  many  of 
whom  led  miserable  lives.  Eleven  were  divorced;  two 
executed;  nine  died  young;  seven  were  widowed 
early;  three  cruelly  treated;  three  exiled.  A  few  of 
the  others  were  poisoned,  and  most  of  them  broken- 
hearted. 


Twenty-five  presidents  have  entered  the  White 
House.  Of  the  women  who  have  accompanied  them, 
some  have  come  reluctantly,  some  gladly;  but  nearly 
all  have  acquitted  themselves  with  a  dignity  and  a 
sense  of  fitness  that  gave  a  new  meaning  to  the 
national  boast,  Any  American  girl  can  be  a  four-years' 

queen.  Manan  West. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Kings. 


A  man's  a  man, 
But  when  you  see  a  king,  you  see  the  work 
Of  many  thousand  men.  George  Eiiot. 

A  king  ruleth  as  he  ought,  a  tyrant  as  he  lists ;  a 
king  to  the  profit  of  all,  a  tyrant  only  to  please  a  few. 

Aristotle. 

A  king  is  a  man  condemned  to  bear 
The  public  burthen  of  the  nation's  care. 

Matthew  Prior. 

Kings  are  like  stars — they  rise  and  set,  they  have 
The  worship  of  the  world,  but  no  repose. 

Percy  Bysshe  Shelley. 

Think  soberly,  O  ye  kings!  how  your  crowns  are 
but  yellow  metal,  and  your  purple  robes  the  food  of 
moths,  and  the  scepters  of  your  power  no  better  than 
hedge-twigs  for  the  driving  of  rats!     Maurice  Hewlett. 

"King  Edward's  favorite  game  of  cards— 'VII  up,' 
of  course." 


•«•••#••*  ****««*«*«»f , 


As  to  the  Stages. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


All  the  world's  a  club, 
And  all  the  girls  and  women  merely  joiners : 
They  have  their  fancies  and  their  favorites ; 
And  one  woman  in  her  time  joins  many  clubs, 
Throughout  her  seven  stages.     At  first,  she's  timid ; 
Draws  back  and  nestles  in  her  quiet  home ; 
And  then,  the  charming  young  girl,  with  her  note-book. 
And  sunny,  beaming  face,  walking,  like  Eve, 
Unwittingly  to  doom.     And  then,  the  zealot ; 
Talking  like  magpie,  with  a  joj^ul  ballot 
Made  for  her  chairman's  glory.     Then,  a  speaker, 
Full  of  strange  words,  and  flurried  like  the  club; 
Zealous  in  instinct,  rapid  and  sure  in  method. 
Seeking  the  bubble  reputation 

Even  in  the  enemy's  glare.     And  then,  the  matron, 
Her  fair,  round  figure,  cloth  outside  and  silk  lin'd. 
Full  of  w^itty  quips  and  modem  instances, 
And  thus  she  reads  her  paper.     The  sixth  age  leads 
Into  the  gray  and  silvered  devotee, 
W^ith  lorgnette  in  hand,  and  bag  at  side ; 
Her  youthful  gown  ^vell  covered,  a  w^orld  too  small 
For  her  decorations,  and  her  many  badges 
Shining  in  all  their  gorgeous  array,  show 
Allegiance  to  her  clubs.     Last  scene  of  all 
That  ends  this  strange,  eventful  history, 
Is  daily  attendance  at  each  society ; 
Sans  aim,  sans  love,  sans  home,  sans  everything. 

A  Parody,  by  Nellie  Howes. 


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Mere  Man 


As  to  the  Ages. 


All  the  world's  a  stage, 
And  all  the  men  and  women  merely  players : 
They  have  their  exits  and  their  entrances ; 
And  one  man  in  his  time  plays  many  parts. 
His  acts  being  seven  ages.    At  first,  the  infant, 
Mewling  and  puking  in  the  nurse's  arms ; 
And  then  the  whining  school-boy,  with  his  satchel, 
And  shining  morning  face,  creeping  like  snail 
Unwillingly  to  school.    And  then,  the  lover, 
Sighing  like  furnace,  ^vith  a  woful  ballad 
Made  to  his  mistress'  eye-brow.    Then,  a  soldier; 
Full  of  strange  oaths,  and  bearded  like  the  pard, 
Jealous  in  honour,  sudden  and  quick  in  quarrel. 
Seeking  the  bubble  reputation 

Even  in  the  cannon's  mouth.     And  then,  the  justice; 
W^ith  eyes  severe,  and  beard  of  formal  cut. 
Full  of  ^vise  sa\vs  and  modern  instances. 
And  so  he  plays  his  part.     The  sixth  age  shifts 
Into  the  lean  and  slipper'd  pantaloon ; 
With  spectacles  on  nose,  and  pouch  on  side ; 
His  youthful  hose  well  sav'd ;  a  world  too  wide 
For  his  shrunk  shank;  and  his  big,  manly  voice. 
Turning  again  toward  childish  treble,  pipes 
And  whistles  in  his  sound.     Last  scene  of  all, 
That  ends  this  strange,  eventful  history. 
Is  second  childishness,  and  mere  oblivion ; 
Sans  teeth,  sans  eyes,  sans  taste,  sans  everything. 

Shakespeare. 


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V^...' 


q-.^.^^^^^^^— ^-'^-^-^  —_-_-_—_-_—_  ~_—^D 


As  to  Perfection.  Sovereign  W^oman. 

Earth's  noblest  thing — a  woman  perfected. 

James  Russell  Lowell. 

What  woman  can  withstand  the  fascination  of  a 
lover's  faith  that  she  is  an  angel?  If  a  man  is  fool 
enough  to  believe  it,  why  undeceive  him?  And  if  he 
is  so  sure  of  it,  may  it  even  not  be  so? 

Robert  Grant. 

A  perfect  woman,  nobly  planned 
To  warn,  to  comfort  and  command. 

William  Wordsworth. 

"Them  'perfect  women,  nobly  planned,'  hev  got  to 
begin  right  off  sharp  on  the'r  business  o'  wamin'  an' 
comfortin'  and  commandin',  an'  it  must  come  dretflil 
hard  on  'em  in  the'r  inexperience,  sometimes,  an'  they 
must  have  panicky  moments  when  the're  afeard  they 
hain't  commanded  right."  ^,      r         r>     v 

o  Clara  Louise  Bumham. 

An  unhappy  gentleman,  resolving  to  wed  nothing 
short  of  perfection,  keeps  his  heart  and  hand  till  both 
get  so  old  and  withered  that  no  tolerable  woman  will 
accept  them. 


Nathaniel  Hawthorne. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Selfishness. 


Man  of  all  ages  is  a  selfish  animal  and  unreason- 
able in  his  selfishness.  It  takes  every  one  of  us  in 
turn  many  a  shrewd  fall  in  our  wrestlings  with  the 
world  to  convince  us  that  we  are  not  to  have  every- 
thing our  own  way.  Thomas  Hughes. 

Men,  even  the  worthy  ones  who  will  make  sacri- 
fices in  the  big  things,  which  women  cannot  nerve 
themselves  to  meet,  are  proverbially  selfish  in  all  those 
little  things  that  make  or  mar  the  life  of  every  day. 

Lavinia  Hart. 


When  a  man  says  he  sees  nothing  in  a  book,  he 
very  often  means  that  he  does  not  see  himself  in  it — 
which,  if  it  is  not  a  comedy  or  a  satire,  is  likely  enough. 

Julius  and  Augustus  Hare. 

A  man  with  a  mission  is  a  devouring  lion  who 
pays  no  heed  to  time,  or  place,  or  feelings,  or  indi- 
viduals. Julian  Ralph. 


••••••*«••• 


• — . 


As  to  Looks. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


"'A  woman's  crowning  glory  is  her  hair,'  said  the 
poet.  Had  he  said  her  *hat,'  he  would  have  been  no 
poet,  but  'mere  man.'" 

If  the  nose  of  Cleopatra  had  been  shorter,  the 
whole  face  of  the  earth  ^vould  have  been  different. 

Blaise  Pascal. 

I  alwa)^  envy  the  v^omen  with  good  noses  more 
than  I  can  express.  .  .  .  Eyes  grow  dim,  and  teeth 
depart,  and  figures  increase,  but  a  good  nose  is  an 
abiding  resting-place  for  your  vanity.  You  know  that 
it  will  last  out  your  time,  whatever  happens,  and  that 
age  cannot  wither  nor  custom  stale  its  satisfactory 

proportions.  EU^„  Thomeycroft  Fowler. 

It  really  is  an  advantage  to  a  girl  if  she  doesn't 
want  to  be  bothered  by  men,  to  be  bom  plain. 

Paul  Leicester  Ford. 

A  pretty  woman's  worth  some  pains  to  see. 

Robert  Browning. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Looks. 


Good  looks  in  a  man,  as  a  very  celebrated  woman 
once  remarked,  are  superfluous.  A  handsome  man 
attracts  attention,  and  so  he  has  a  certain  preliminary 
advantage  over  a  rival  who  is  plain ;  yet  this  counts 
for  very  little  in  the  end.  John  Wilkes,  who  was  more 
than  ugly,  knew  women  well  when  he  said,  "Give  me 


half  an  houi-'s  start,  and   I   am  not  afraid  of  the 

handsomest    man    in    England."       Harry  Thurston  Peek. 

A  great,   good,  handsome  man  is  the  first  of 

created  beings.  charlotte  Bronte. 

A  Little  Girl's  Opinion  of  Men. 

"  Men  are  ugly.  They  are  dirty.  They  say,  'Come 
here,  my  little  girl,  and  I  will  give  you  something' — 
then  when  I  go  to  them  they  try  and  kiss  me.  And 
I  will  not  kiss  them,  because  their  mouths  smell  bad. 
They  stroke  my  hair  and  pull  it  all  the  wrong  way ; 
and  it  hurts.  And  when  I  don't  like  my  hair  pulled 
the  wrong  way,  they  tell  me  I   will  be  a  great 

coquette."  Marie  CoreUi. 

That  man  is  not  fit  to  join  the  honorable  ranks  of 
the  bald  ^vho  cannot  spread  and  plaster  down  three 
hairs  until  they  cover  the  entire  top  of  his  cranium. 

Charles  P.  Burton. 


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As  to  Age. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


They  say  that  women  and  music  should  never  be 
dated.  q^^^^.  QoidsmUh. 

A  woman  is  never  old  until  the  little  finger  of  her 
glove  is  allowed  to  project  beyond  the  finger  itself, 
and  she  orders  her  new  photographs  from  an  old  plate 
in  preference  to  sitting  again.  ^yrtie  Reed. 

The  girl  whose  face  is  her  fortune  soon  finds  that 
Father  Time  is  a  great  spendthrift. 

James  Jay  O'ConnelL 

My  birthday !   "  How  many  years  ago  ?  " 
"Twenty  or  thirty?"   Don't  ask  me! 

"Forty  or  fifty?"   How  can  1  tell? 
I  do  not  remember  my  birth,  you  see ! 

Julia  C.  D.  Dorr. 

What  a  pity  that  wrinkles  should  not  be  all  under 
our  heels  instead  of  on  our  faces!  It  would  be  a 
much  better  arrangement.  Ninon  de  rEndos. 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Years. 

We  do  not  count  a  man's  years  until  he  has  noth- 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 


ing  else  to  count. 


What's  a  man's  age?  He  must  hurry  more,  that's  all; 
Cram  in  a  day  what  his  youth  took  a  year  to  hold ; 
When  we  mind  labor,  then,  only,  we're  too  old. 

Robert  Browning. 

The  years  of  a  man's  life  that  count  the  most  are 
often  those  which  may  be  passed  quickest  in  the  story 

O^  ^^-  Winston  ChurchiU. 

The  third  age  of  love  is  the  callow  age,  in  which 
a  boy  always  falls  in  love  with  a  woman  old  enough 
to  be  his  mother.  It  is  accompanied  by  a  desire  on 
his  part  to  be  thought  very,  very  old,  and  very,  very 
wicked.  He  regards  any  reference  to  his  age  as  a  per- 
sonal insult,  and  hates  those  who  call  him  by  his 
Christian  name.  ^^^^^^  ^.^ 

He  who  is  not  strong  before  twenty,  handsome 
before  thirty,  wise  before  forty,  and  rich  before  fifty — 
on  such  a  man  even  beer  is  altogether  lost. 

German  Proverb. 


_-^a 


As  to  Dress. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


Eve's  fig-leaves  had  the  merit  of  simplicity,  econ- 
omy, and  comfort,  in  the  climate  of  Paradise.  Her 
daughters  have  seldom  compassed  so  much  with  one 
hundred  times  the  labor. 


Marion  Harland. 

Woman  ought  every  morning  to  put  on  the  slip- 
pers of  humility,  the  sWft  of  decorum,  the  corset  of 
charity,  the  garters  of  steadfastness,  the  pins  of  pa- 
tience. Selected. 

In  those  days  the  women  laced  until  they  had  no 
room  inside  them  for  a  good,  square  meal.  They  wore 
paper-soled  shoes  on  the  street,  and  thought  it  vulgar 
to  look  healthy,  and  the  height  of  every  well-regulated 
young  woman's  ambition  was  to  have  an  unhappy 
love  affair,  and  to  go  into  a  decline.  We  are  more  sen- 
sible nowadays.  Geraldine  Anthony. 

"  It  was  Talleyrand  who,  on  being  asked  by  a  lady 
his  opinion  of  her  dress,  replied  that  it  began  too  late, 
and  ended  too  soon." 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Clothes. 


Of  course,  clothes  don't  maKC  the  man,  but  they 
make  all  of  him  except  his  hands  and  face  during  busi- 
ness hours,  and  that's  a  pretty  considerable  area  of 

the  human  animal.  q^^,^^  Horace  Lonmer. 

No  matter  how  a  man  may  dress, 
'Tis  not  his  clothes  that  make  him ; 

Indeed,  the  swells  themselves  confess 
More  often  'tis  they  break  him. 

Selected. 

Women  despise  a  man  wno  gives  much  thought 
to  clothes,  yet,  on  the  other  hand,  they  wish  him  to  be 
well  set-up,  neat,  wholesome,  trim,  and  well-groomed, 
as  every  man  should  be,  not  as  a  matter  of  conscious 
effort,  but,  by  an  instinctive  sense  of  fitness  and  good 
taste.  Women  will  pardon  slovenliness  in  a  genius, 
but  they  will  never  like  it;  and  in  one  who  is  not  a 
genius,  they  will  very  justly  infer  from  it  the  presence 
of  something  louche  in  habits  or  in  character. 

Harry  Thurston  Peck. 


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As  to  Fads.  Sovereign  Woman. 

There  are  no  inclinations  in  women  which  more 
surprise  me  than  their  passions  for  chalk  and  china. 
The  first  of  these  maladies  wears  out  in  a  little  time ; 
but,  when  a  woman  is  visited  with  the  second,  it  gen- 
erally takes  possession  of  her  for  life.  China  vessels 
are  playthings  for  women  of  all  ages.  An  old  lady  of 
four-score  shall  be  as  busy  in  cleaning  an  Indian  man- 
darin as  her  great-granddaughter  is  in  dressing  her 

baby.  Joseph  Addison. 

The  bicycle  ...  is  the  true  and  only  Woman's 
emancipator.  What  sisterhoods  have  been  shrieking 
for,  what  people  have  been  agitating,  lecturing,  and 
wrangling  over  for  three-parts  of  a  century,  was  sud- 
denly and  quietly  accomplished  by  the  first  turn  of  the 
first  lady's  safety-wheel — that  freed  a  whole  sex. 

Maxwell  Gray. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Peculiarities. 


There  are  three  reasons  why  men  of  genius  have 
long  hair.  One  is  that  they  forget  it  is  growing.  The 
second  is  that  they  like  it.  The  third  is  that  it  comes 
cheaper:  they  wear  it  long  for  the  same  reason  that 
they  wear  their  hats  long. 


Israel  Zangwill. 


Three  things  a  wise  man  will  not  trust: 
The  wind,  the  sunshine  of  an  April  day, 
And  woman's  pUghted  faith.        R^^ert  somhey. 

How  strangely  men  act!  They  will  not  praise 
those  who  are  living  at  the  same  time  and  living  with 
themselves;  but  to  be  themselves  praised  by  posterity 
by  those  whom  they  have  never  seen,  nor  will  ever 
see,  this  they  set  much  value  on.  Antoninus. 

A  man  who  has  not  an)^hing  to  boast  of  but  his 
illustrious  ancestors  is  like  a  potato — the  only  good 
belonging  to  him  is  underground. 

Sir  Thomas  Overbury. 


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^^»  ••••••••••••• 


As  to  "Sphere. 


»> 


Sovereign  Woman. 


In  little  duties  women  find  their  spheres 

The  narrow  cares  that  cluster  round  the  hearth. 


R.  H.  Stoddard. 


Whatever  has  gone  wrong  with  women  in  the 
world  is  man's  fault.  If  she  has  been  kept  down;  if 
she  has  been  too  much  exalted;  if  she  has  been  taught 
too  much  or  too  little,  has  got  out  of  her  proper  sphere, 
or  missed  her  due  development,  because  the  sphere 
accorded  her  was  too  narrow — it  is  all  man's  fault, 
and  he  must  expect  to  settle  for  it.  e.  s.  Martin. 


« 


They  talk  about  a  'woman's  sphere' 

As  though  it  has  a  limit; 
There's  not  a  spot  on  sea  or  shore, 
In  sanctum,  office,  shop  or  store, 
Without  a  woman  in  it." 


The  endless  discussions  of  woman's  "sphere"  have 
produced  a  hampering  self-consciousness.  Women 
have  been  drawn  into  discussing  their  work  instead 

of  doing  it.  Selected. 


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•  •«•••••  •«••  « 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Assurance. 


Does  there  not  exist  inside  of  every  man  a  certain 
big,  ferocious-looking  faculty  who  is  his  drum-major — 
loving  to  strut  at  the  head  of  a  peaceful  parade  and 
twirl  his  bawble  and  roll  his  eyes  at  the  children  and 
scowl  back  at  the  quiet,  intrepid  fellows  behind  as 
though  they  were  his  personal  prisoners?  Let  but 
a  skirmish  threaten,  and  our  dear,  ferocious,  fat 
major! — not  even  in  the  rear — not  even  on  the  field! 

James  Lane  Allen. 

There  are  men  whom  no  one  respects  very  highly, 
"who  are  not  sincerely  trusted,  whose  honour  is  not 
spotless,  and  whose  ways  are  far  from  straight,  but 
who  nevertheless  hold  a  certain  ascendency  over 
others  by  mere  show  and  assurance, 

F.  Marion  Crawford. 


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As  to  Fame. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


It  is  only  on  the  rarest  occasions  that  a  woman's 
life  is  balanced  between  love  and  fame — and  the  two 
gifts  are  seldom  bestowed  together.  If  she  accepts 
love  she  is  often  compelled  to  forego  fame,  because 
she  merges  herself  too  closely  into  the  existence  of 
another.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  she  chooses  fame,  men 
are  generally  aft-aid  or  jealous  of  her,  and  leave  her  to 

herself.  Mane  CoreUi. 

Whenever  a  woman  has  been  exalted  above  the 
rest  of  her  sex  by  the  talents  of  a  lover  and  consigned 
to  enduring  fame  and  perpetuity  of  praise,  the  passion 
was  real  and  was  merited;  no  deep  or  lasting  interest 
was  ever  founded  in  fancy.  Mrs.  Jameson. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Greatness. 


Many  a  man  has  lost  being  a  great  man  by  split- 
ting into  two  middling  ones.     ^^^^^^  ^^^  ^^^^^^^  j,„^ 

Nature  has  her  hour  of  revenge  on  every  one  who 
has  sacrificed  humanity  to  ambition,  whether  he  wears 
the  crown  of  the  tyrant  or  the  tiara  of  the  saint. 
There  is  a  greater  man  than  the  great  man — the  man 
v/ho  is  too  great  to  be  great.  ^aii  caine. 

Every  man  meets  his  "Waterloo  at  last. 

WendeU  Phillips. 

When  first  a  man  his  greatness  tells, 
The  world  with  doubt  receives  him ; 

But  if  he  tells  it  loud  enough 

The  world  at  last  believes  him.     selected. 

Pythagoras  was  misunderstood,  and  Socrates,  and 
Jesus,  and  Luther,  and  Copernicus,  and  Galileo,  and 
Newton,  and  every  pure  and  wise  spirit  that  ever  took 
flesh.     To  be  great  is  to  be  misunderstood. 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 


As  to  Garrulity.  Sovereign  Woman. 

Ten  measures  of  garrulity,  says  the  Talmud,  were 
sent  down  upon  earth;  but  the  women  took  nine.  I 
have  known  in  my  life  eight  terrific  talkers,  and  five 
of  them  were  of  the  masculine  gender.  But,  supposing 
that  the  Rabbis  were  right  in  allotting  to  the  women 
a  manifold  proportion  of  talkativeness,  I  confess  that 
I  have  inherited  my  mother's  share.     Robert  somhey. 

A  woman's  tongue  is  a  deadly  weapon,  and  the 
most  difficult  thing  in  the  world  to  keep  in  order,  and 
things  slip  off  it  with  a  facility  nothing  short  of  ap- 
palling at  the  very  moment  when  it  ought  to  be  most 

quiet.  Author  "  Elizabeth  and  Her  German  Garden  " 

(Countess  Arnheim). 

Half  the  sorrows  of  women  would  be  averted  if 
they  could  repress  the  speech  they  know  to  be  use- 
less— nay,  the  speech  they  have  resolved  not  to  utter. 

George  Eliot. 

"There  was  an  old  woman  who  lived  in  a  shoe" — 
ah!  that  accounts  for  the  tongue  in  it.  selected. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Garrulity. 


Dean  Swift  held  the  doctrine  that  there  were  three 
places  where  a  man  should  be  allowed  to  speak  with- 
out contradiction,  viz.:  The  bench,  the  pulpit,  and  the 
gallows. 

The  very  reason  why  men's  talk,  as  a  general 
thing,  is  nobler  than  wimmen's,  is  because  they  have 

nobler  things  to  talk  about.  "Samamha  AUen." 

There  are  men  who  talk  in  their  sleep  for  sheer 
waste  of  activity.  ...  A  better  thing,  in  an  ecclesias- 
tic, at  any  rate,  than  to  sleep  in  his  talk. 

Maarten  Maartens. 

The  man  who  admires  silent  women  loses  his 
heart  to  a  chatterbox  and  spends  the  rest  of  his  mor- 
tal life  in  teaching  her  to  hold  her  tongue. 

Ellen  Thorneycroft  Fowler. 

There  are  a  kind  of  men  so  loose  of  soul 
That  in  their  sleep  will  mutter  their  affairs.  ' 

Shakespeare. 

"  Oh,  why  can't  a  man  tell  you  the  story  of  what 
happened  as  a  woman  would,  so  you  feel  as  if  you'd 

been  there?"  Maud  wader  Goodwin. 


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As  to  Nationality. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


In  the  highest  and  most  intellectual  circles  there  is 
also  the  magnetic  charm  of  the  American  woman,  the 
latest  and  most  bewitching  development  of  the  Eter- 
nal Feminine.  The  easy,  tranquil  good  breeding  of 
the  English  great  lady;  the  finished,  vivacious  grace 
of  the  French  hostess;  the  stately  simplicity  of  the 
German  noble  dame  still  please  us.  But  tiiere  is  some- 
thing infinitely  more  piquant  in  the  careless,  fearless 
sayings  and  doings  of  a  Daughter  of  the  West,  with 
her  advanced  reading,  her  worship  of  the  heroic,  her 
utter  lack  of  reverence  for  rank,  authority,  and  con- 
vention, her  alternate  suggestion  of  the  bluestocking 

and  the  ingenue.  J.  Henniker  Heaton,  M.  p. 

The  ideal  German  girl  thinks  that  she  will  marry 
only  the  man  who  will  make  her  happy;  the  ideal 
American  girl  thinks  that  she  can  marry  only  the 
man  without  whom  she  will  be  unhappy,     selected. 


The  American  woman  prides  herself  on  her  cold- 
ness of  temperament,  and  the  French  woman  on  her 
susceptibility.  W^hen  the  latter  is  in  love  her  one  am- 
bition and  delight  is  to  give  happiness,  while  the 
American  woman  expects  to  be  made  happy  herself. 


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As  to  Nationality. 

Ten  the  men  of  the  East  to  look  out  for  the  men 
of  the  "West.  The  irrepressible  Yank  is  knocking  at 
the  door  of  their  temples,  and  he  will  want  to  sell  'em 
carpet-sweepers  for  their  harems  and  electric  light 
plants  for  their  temple  shrines.  Frank  Noms. 

When  a  Frenchman  is  economical  his  economy  is 
of  a  kind  that  makes  the  Connecticut  brand  look  like 

extravagance.  Elbert  Hubbard. 

Much  may  be  made  of  a  Scotchman  if  he  be 

caught  young.  •  Samuel  Johnson. 

"Frenchmen  shrug  their  shoulders  when  they  want 
to  emphasize; 

The  Briton  gives  his  head  a  little  twist ; 
The  Dago  simply  jabbers  and  gesticulates  with  vim ; 

The  American  hits  the  table  with  his  fist." 

That  for  ways  that  are  dark 
And  for  tricks  that  are  vain, 
The  heathen  Chinee  is  p)eculiar. 

Bret  Harte. 

About  the  only  man  we  ever  heard  of  that  wasn't 
spoiled  by  being  lionized  was  a  Jew,  named  Daniel. 

George  D.  Prentice. 


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As  to  Goodness. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


For  one  woman  that  affronts  her  kind, 

A  thousand  make  amend  in  age  and  youth 

By  heavenly  pity,  by  sweet  sympathy, 
By  patient  kindness,  by  enduring  truth. 

By  love  supremest  in  adversity,      charies  Mackay. 

Epigram  on  Women. 

Oh,  the  shrewdness  of  their  shrewdness  when  they're 

shrewd, 
And  the  rudeness  of  their  rudeness  when  they're 

rude; 
But  the  shrewdness  of  their  shrewdness,  and  the 

rudeness  of  their  rudeness 
Are  as  nothing  to  their  goodness  when  they're  good. 

"Notes  and  Queries." 

'Women  devour  many  a  disappointment  between 
breakfast  and  dinner-time,  keep  back  the  tears,  and 
look  a  little  pale  about  the  lips,  and  in  answer  to 
inquiries,  say,  "Oh,  nothing,"  Pride  helps  us;  and 
pride  is  not  a  bad  thing  when  it  only  urges  us  to  hide 
our  own  hurts — and  not  to  hurt  others. 

George  Eliot. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Goodness. 


Our  mistake  is  in  supposing  that  some  men  are 
"good"  and  others  "bad,"  and  that  a  sharp  line  can 
be  drawn  between  them.  The  truth  is,  that  every  man 
has  both  qualities  in  him,  and  in  very  few  does  the  evil 
ov«"balance  the  good. 


Paul  Leicester  Ford. 


There  are  some  few  men  in  the  world,  I  thank  God 
for  it,  who  bear  their  value  on  their  countenance;  who 
stand  unmistakably  for  qualities  which  command  re- 
spect and  admiration  and  love!  "We  seem  to  recognize 
such  men,  and  to  wonder  where  we  have  seen  them 
before.  In  reality,  we  recognize  the  virtues  they  rep- 
resent. Winston  ChurchiU. 


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As  to  Badness. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


If  all  the  harm  that  women  have  done 
Were  put  in  a  bundle  and  rolled  into  one, 

Earth  would  not  hold  it, 

The  sky  could  not  enfold  it, 
It  could  not  be  lighted  nor  warmed  by  the  sun; 

Such  masses  of  evil 

Would  puzzle  the  devil, 
And  keep  him  in  fiiel  while  Time's  wheels  run. 

James  Kenneth  Stephen. 

They're  always  abusing  the  women, 

As  a  terrible  plague  to  men; 
They  say,  we're  the  root  of  all  evil, 

Ajid  repeat  it  again  and  again; 
Of  wars,  of  quarrels,  of  bloodshed. 

All  mischief,  be  what  it  may; 
And  pray,  then,  why  do  they  marry  us. 

If  we're  all  the  plagues  you  say? 
When  you  ought  to  be  thanking  heaven 

That  your  Plague  is  out  of  the  way. 
You  all  keep  fussing  and  fretting. 

Where  is  my  Plague  today? 

Aristophanes. 

Perhaps  in  the  next  wc»'ld  women  will  be  more 
valued  than  they  are  in  this.  sarah  siddons. 


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As  to  Badness. 


But  if  all  the  harm  that's  betn  done  by  men 
Were  doubled  and  doubled  and  doubled  again, 
And  melted  and  fused  into  vapor  and  then 
Were  squared  and  raised  to  the  power  of  ten, 
There  wouldn't  be  nearly  enough,  not  near. 
To  keep  a  small  girl  for  the  tenth  of  a  year. 

James  Kenneth  Stephen. 

They  say  best  men  are  moulded  out  of  faults; 
And  for  the  most,  become  much  more  the  better 

For  being  a  Httle  bad.  Shakespeare. 

One  may  take  it  that  no  man  is  sent  into  the 
world  a  ready-made  scoundrel.  It  all  depends  upon 
the  circumstances  of  life.  No  one  is  safe  right  up  to 
the  end,  and  events  may  combine  to  make  the  very 
best  of  us  into  that  thing  which  the  world  calls  a 

Vill^^*  Henry  Seton  Merriman. 


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As  to  Ways.  Sovereign  Woman. 

Woman  has  this  in  common  with  the  Deity,  that 

her  ways  are  past  finding  out.  Thomas  Nelson  Page. 

Ah,  that  is  woman's  way!  She  incites  men  to  a 
difficulty,  and  then  appears  innocently  on  the  battle- 
field with  bandages  for  the  belligerents.  How  many 
of  the  quarrels  of  this  world  has  she  caused,  and  how 
few  ever  witnessed !  j3^„  Lane  AUen. 

It  is  never  quite  possible  to  get  at  a  woman's  way, 
because  it  is  invariably  the  other  way. 

Nellie  Cravey  Gillmore. 

There  are  four  ways  in  which  a  v/oman  can 
relieve  her  mind,  if  she  doesn't  lavish  her  heart:  A 
mother,  a  girl  friend,  a  lover,  or  a  book  will  serve  her. 

Mary  Adams. 

W^omen's  lies — 

Often  the  setting  of  a  truth  most  tender 

In  an  unconscious  poesy.  ©wen  Meredith. 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Ways. 

'Tis  ever  common 
That  men  are  merriest  when  they  are  from  home. 

Shakespeare. 

Most  men,  till  by  losing  rendered  sager, 
Will  back  their  own  opinions  by  a  wager. 

Lord  Byron. 

The  wisest  of  the  wise 
Listen  to  pretty  lies 

And  love  to  hear  them  told; 
Doubt  not  that  Solomon 
Listen'd  to  many  a  one, 

Some  in  his  youth,  and  more  when 
he  grew  old. 

Walter  Savage  Landor. 

There  was  never  yet  philosopher 

That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 

Shakespeare. 

With  most  men  duty  means  something  unpleas- 
ant which  the  other  fellow  ought  to  do.        selected. 


Men's  truths  are  often  lies. 


Owen  Meredith. 


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As  to  Work, 


Sovereign  Woman. 


I  am  inclined  to  believe  the  happiest  women  in  the 
world  are  the  hard-working  ones;  not  the  overtaxed 
drudges,  but  wives  and  mothers  whose  hands  and 
minds  are  busy  from  morning  until  night  with  house- 
hold duties,  or  the  women  who  hold  responsible  posi- 
tions requiring  all  their  waking  hours  and  thoughts. 

Ella  Wheeler  WUcox. 

The  woman  who  makes  flannel  shirts  for  the  Hot- 
tentots is  very  apt  to  have  a  husband  in  her  own 
home  whose  shirts  need  mending.  j  q  Holland. 

"Please  tell  the  Court  what  you  did  between  eight 
and  nine  o'clock  on  that  morning." 

"  I  gave  the  two  children  their  breakfast,  dressed 
them  for  school,  made  up  their  lunches,  w^ashed  the 
dishes,  made  the  beds,  sorted  the  soiled  linen  and  put 
it  in  the  tubs,  swept  and  dusted  the  parlor,  sewed  a 
button  or  two  on  the  children's  clothes,  interviewed 
the  gas  man,  grocer,  and  butcher,  put  off  the  land- 
lord, sat  down  to  glance  over  the  morning  paper, 
and  then " 

"That  will  do,  madam." 


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Mere  Man.  As  to  Work. 

The  darkest  day  in  a,iy  man's  career  is  that 
wherein  he  fancies  there  is  some  easier  way  of  get- 
ting a  dollar  than  by  squarely  earning  it. 

Horace  Greeley. 

The  heights  by  great  men  reached  and  kept 
Were  not  attained  by  sudden  flight, 

But  they,  while  their  companions  slept, 
Were  toiling  upward  in  the  night. 

Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow. 

Free  men  freely  work; 
Whoever  fears  God,  fears  to  sit  at  ease. 

Elizabeth  Barret  Browning. 

A  mechanic  his  labor  will  often  discard 
If  the  rate  of  his  pay  his  dislikes; 

But  a  clock — and  its  case  is  uncommonly  hard — 
Will  continue  to  work,  though  it  strikes. 

Thomas  Hood. 

Of  course  everybody  likes  and  respects  self-made 
men.   It  is  a  great  deal  better  to  be  made  in  that  way 

than  not  to  be  made  at  all.  oiiver  Wendell  Holmes. 


As  to  Curiosity.  Sovereign  Woman. 

It  is  said  that  curiosity  is  a  potent  motive  with 
what  used  to  be  called  the  gentler,  and  occasionally 
even  the  weaker,  sex,  a  distinction  that  for  some  time 
has  been  passing,  if  it  has  not  altogether  passed  away. 

Thomas  Nelson  Page. 

Was  it  not,  for  example,  in  the  grey  beginning  of 
days,  was  it  not  woman  whose  mortal  taste  brought 
sin  into  the  world  and  all  our  woe?  Was  not  that 
Pandora  a  woman,  who  liberated,  from  the  box 
wherein  they  were  confined,  the  swarm  of  winged 


evils  that  still  afflict  us? 


Henry  Harland. 


Divorce  is  no  bar  to  ordinary  feminine  curiosity 
as  to  the  whereabouts  of  a  former  partner  for  life. 


Robert  Grant. 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Heredity. 


"  Lord,  who  did  sin,  this  man  or  his  parents,  that 
he  was  bom  blind?"  queried  the  gainsayers,  believers 
all  in  the  law  of  heredity,  but  forgetting  the  pregnant 
clause,  "Unto  the  third  and  fourth  generations." 


Marion  Harland. 


I  think  it  must  somewhere  be  written,  that  the 
virtues  of  mothers  shall  occasionally  be  visited  upon 
the  children,  as  well  as  the  sins  of  the  fathers. 

Charles  Dickens. 

There  is  something  in  wet  sand  which  no  man- 
child  can  resist.  I  wonder  if  it  is  not  a  shred  of  our 
heredity  fix«n  the  time  when  we  burrowed  in  the 

ground.  Thomas  Nelson  Page. 

The  booby  father  craves  a  booby  son, 

And  by  heaven's  blessing  thinks  himself  undone. 

Edward  Young. 

"Husbemd,  I  don't  know  where  that  boy  got  his 
bad  temper — certainly  not  from  me." 

"  No,  my  dear,  for  I  don't  find  that  you  have  lost 
any." 


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As  to  Tears.  Sovereign  Woman. 

"Woman's  trump  card— 'Tears,  idle  tears.*" 

In  woman's  eye,  the  unanswerable  tear, 
That  weapon  of  her  weakness  she  can  wield 
To  save,  subdue, — at  once — her  spear  and  shield. 

Shakespeare. 

Women,  like  summer  storms,  awhile  are  cloudy, 
Burst  out  in  thunder  and  impetuous  showers; 
But  straight  the  sun  of  beauty  dawns  abroad 
And  all  the  fair  horizon  is  serene. 

Nicholas  Rowe. 

If  that  the  earth  could  teem  with  woman's  tears 
Each  drop  she  falls  would  prove  a  crocodile. 

Shakespeare. 

If  the  boy  have  not  a  woman's  gift 

To  rain  a  shower  of  commanded  tears. 
An  onion  will  do  well  for  such  a  shift. 

Shakespeare. 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Tenderness. 


Masculine  tenderness  is  said  to  respond  to  tears. 
I  do  not  find  it  so.  Rather,  I  should  say  that  a  man's 
devotion  fades  under  salt  water,  like  a  bathing-suit 
in  the  very  element  for  which  it  is  supposed  to  be 

adapted.  Maiy  Adams. 

"When  maidens  sue, 
Men  give  like  gods;  but  when  they  weep  and  kneel, 
All  their  petitions  are  as  freely  theirs 
As  they  themselves  would  owe  them. 

Shakespeare. 


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As  to  Bashfulncss.  Sovereign  Woman. 

Girls  blush  sometimes,  because  they  are  alive, 
Half  wishing  they  were  dead,  to  save  the  shame. 
The  sudden  blush  devours  them,  neck  and  brow; 
They  have  drawn  too  near  the  fire  of  life,  like  gnats, 
And  Hare  up  boldly,  wings  and  all; 
Who's  sorry  for  a  gnat ...  or  girl? 

Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning. 

The  eloquent  blood  spoke  in  her  cheeks, 

And  so  distinctly  wrought, 

Ye  might  have  almost  said  her  body  thought. 

John  Donne. 

"  I  declare  I  'm  almost  ashamed  to  be  seen  in  com- 
pany with  Mabel  these  days." 

"  So  am  I ;  she  does  such  outlandish  things.  Look 
at  her  now,  blushing  Uke  a  great  big  bashful  boy." 

Selected. 


A  blush,  .  .  .  like  the  scarlet  flag  of  Jeanne  d'Arc 
at  Rouen,  shows  sometimes  where  there  is  weakness 
in  the  walls. 


Gwendolen  Overton. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Bashfulness. 


There  are  two  distinct  Sorts  of  what  we  call 
Bashfulness:  this,  the  awkwardness  of  a  Booby,  which 
a  few  steps  into  the  world  will  convert  into  the  pert- 
ness  of  a  Coxcomb;  that,  a  Consciousness,  which  the 
most  delicate  Feelings  produce,  and  the  most  extensive 
knowledge  cannot  always  remove.  Mackenzie. 


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Of  fancied  scorn  and  undeserv'd  disdain, 
And  bear  the  marks  upon  a  blushing  face 
Of  needless  shame  and  self-impos'd  disgrace. 

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As  to  Disparagement.      Sovereign  Woman. 

Persons  with  skill  in  the  use  of  words  seem  in  all 
ages  to  have  liked  to  say  smart  things  about  women 
in  general,  and  especially  things  which  convey  a  meas- 
ure of  depreciative  disparagement.  Even  we  Anglo- 
Saxons,  who  modestly  assume  to  represent  the  real 
hard  sense  of  the  universe,  have  a  tradition  that  it  is 
a  woman's  privilege  to  change  her  mind. 

E.  S.  Martin. 


Frailty,  thy  name  is  Woman! 


Shakespeare. 


Woman's  at  best  a  contradiction  still. 

Alexander  Pope. 

Who  trusts  himself  to  woman  or  to  waves 
Should  never  hazard  what  he  fears  to  lose. 

John  Oldmixon. 

The  Devil,  my  friends,  is  a  woman  just  now — 
'Tis  a  woman  that  reigns  in  Hell. 

Owen  Meredith  (Lord  Lytten). 


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As  to  Comparison. 


There's  but  the  twinkling  of  a  star 
Between  a  man  of  peace  and  war; 
A  thief  and  justice,  fool  and  knave; 
A  huffing  ofTcer,  and  a  slave; 
A  crafty  lawyer,  and  a  pickpocket; 
A  great  philosopher,  and  a  blockhead; 
A  formal  preacher,  and  a  player; 
A  learned  phj^dan,  and  a  man-slayer. 

Samuel  Butler. 

Words  are  women,  deeds  are  men. 

George  Herbert. 

A  man  can  keep  another  person's  secret  better 
than  his  own;  a  woman,  on  the  contrary,  keeps  her 
secret,  though  she  tells  all  others.  l^  Bmyere. 

An  ordinary  plumber  now  knows  more  than  Gali- 
leo did,  and  a  chemist's  assistant  more  than  Jenner; 
but  our  innumerable  hosts  of  minor  poets  have  not 
yet  out-Shsikespeared  Shakespeare,  nor  do  our  mod- 
em impressionists  put  Raphael  and  Michelangelo  to 

shame.  -EMe^n  Thomeycroft  Fowler. 


As  to  Riches. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


It  is  easy  enough  for  a  rich  woman  to  be  good- 
natured.     It  doesn't  cost  her  enough  to  constitute  a 

claim.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett. 

The  Providence  that  tempers  the  wind  to  the 
shorn  lamb  made  the  summer  for  the  portionless  girl. 
Given  soft,  white  raiment  and  the  moonlight  of  a  sum- 
mer night,  the  summer  girl  need  ask  no  favors  of  her 

satin-clad  ^Amlter  sister.  Thomas  Nelson  Page. 

Multitudes  of  women  hold  with  Becky  Sharp — 
envious  of  the  prosperity  of  the  Pitt  Crawleys — that 
they  could  be  very  good  on  five  thousand  a  year. 
The  probability  is  that  they  could  be  more  upright 
in  thought  and  conduct  if  their  supply  of  pin-money 
were  not  contingent  upon  the  convenience  which  often 
means  caprice  of  their  legal  masters.  Every  woman 
and  every  girl  has  a  right  to  be  in  a  certain  sense  and 
degree  independent — at  any  rate,  to  the  extent  of 
holding  her  little  all  in  her  own  name  and  hands. 

Marion  Harland. 

What  female  heart  can  gold  de^se? 

What  cat's  averse  to  fish  ?  Thomas  Gray. 


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74 


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"X 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Riches. 


I  would  have  every  man  rich,  that  he  might  know 

the  W^OrthleSSneSS  of  riches.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

The  rich  man's  son  inherits  cares: 

The  bank  may  break,  the  factory  bum, 

A  breath  may  burst  his  bubble  shares, 
And  soft  white  hands  could  hardly  earn 
A  living  that  would  serve  his  turn. 

James  Russell  Lowell. 

Every  man  likes  to  make  money.  Even  clergy- 
men find  it  their  duty  to  accept  a  call  from  the  congre- 
gation v^hich  affords  the  best  salary,  and  probing  men 
of  science  do  not  hesitate  to  reap  the  harvest  from  a 

W^Onderful  invention.  Robert  Grant.    ", 

Supposing  a  man  had  the  wealth  of  the  Czar 

Of  the  Russias  to  boot,  for  the  rest  of  his  days. 

On  the  whole,  do  you  think  he  would  have  much  to 

spare 
If  he  married  a  woman  with  nothing  to  wear? 

WUliam  Allen  Butler. 


As  to  W^iU. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


Where  is  the  man  who  has  the  power  and  skill 
To  stem  the  torrent  of  a  woman's  will? 
For  if  she  will,  she  will,  you  may  depend  on't. 
And  if  she  won't,  she  won't,  so  there's  an  end  on't. 

(These  lines  are  copied  from  the  pillar  on  the*Dane, 
John  Field,  Canterbury,  England.) 

Men  dying,  make  their  wills,  but  wives 

Escape  a  work  so  sad — 
Why  should  they  make  what  all  their  lives 

The  gentle  dames  have  had? 

John  G.  Saxe. 

A  tigress  robb'd  of  young,  a  lioness, 

Or  any  interesting  beast  of  prey. 
Are  similes  at  hand  for  the  distress 

Of  ladies  who  cannot  have  their  own  way. 

Lord  Byron. 

The  souls  of  women  are  so  small. 
That  some  believe  they've  none  at  all; 
But  if  they  have,  like  cripples  still. 
They've  but  one  faculty — the  will. 

Samuel  Butler. 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Rule. 


He  only  is  a  well-made  man  who  has  a  good  deter- 


mination. 


Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 


"Petticoat  influence"  is  a  great  reproach, 
Which,  e'en  those  who  obey,  would  fain  be  thought 

To  fly  from.  Lord  Byron. 

How  fond  are  men  of  rule  and  place 
Who  court  it  from  the  mean  and  base! 
These  cannot  bear  an  equal  nigh, 
But  from  superior  merit  fly.  john  Gay. 

"I,  when  I  am  grown  up,  I  shall  do  as  I  like." .  .  . 
Not  a  child  that  was  ever  bom  but  has  found  comfort 
in  those  delightful  words,  since  little  Cain  first  mut- 
tered them,  when  his  mother  ordered  him  to  put  on 
his  furs  again.    Even  Abel  must  have  thought  them. 

Maarten  Maartens. 


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As  to  P^ghts. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


Woman's  position  in  the  world  is  higher  than 
man's;  and  although  she  has  often  been  denied  the 
right  of  suffrage,  she  always  does  vote  and  always 
will  vote — by  her  influence;  and  her  chief  desire 
ought  to  be  that  she  should  have  grace  rightly  to 
rule  in  the  dominion  which  she  has  already  won. 

T.  De  Witt  Talmadge. 

Our  American  institutions  have  been  friendly  to 
her,  and  at  this  moment  I  esteem  it  a  chief  felicity  of 
this  country  that  it  excels  in  women.  A  certain  awk- 
ward consciousness  of  inferiority  in  the  men  may 
give  rise  to  the  new  chivalry  in  behalf  of  Woman's 

Rights.  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

Gaylord  Clark's  matter-of-fact  man's  reply  to  the 
strong-minded  lecturer  upon  woman's  right  to  ascend 
the  tree  of  knowledge,  was: 

"Wimmen  is  bad  climbers — mostly  on  account 
of  they  clothes." 

Woman's  rights  in  the  matter  of  pockets  haven't 

penetrated  to  evening  gowns.  ciara  Louise  Bumham. 


78 


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Mere  Man. 


As  to  Politics. 


To  educate  the  wise  man,  the  State  exists;  and 
with  the  appearance  of  the  wise  man,  the  State  ex- 
pires. .  .  .  The  wise  man  is  the  State.  He  needs  no 
army,  fort,  or  navy, — he  loves  men  too  well ;  no  bribe, 
or  feast,  or  palace,  to  draw  friends  to  him;  no  van- 
tage ground,  no  favorable  circumstance.  He  needs 
no  library,  for  he  has  not  done  thinking;  no  church, 
for  he  is  a  prophet;  no  statute-book,  for  he  is  the  law- 
giver; no  money,  for  he  is  value;  no  road,  for  he  is  at 
home  where  he  is;  no  experience,  for  the  life  of  the 
Creator  shoots  through  him  and  looks  from  his  eyes. 
He  has  no  personal  friends,  for  he  who  has  the  spell 
to  draw  the  prayer  and  piety  of  all  men  unto  him 
needs  not  husband  and  educate  a  few  to  share  with 
him  a  select  and  poetic  life.  His  relation  to  men  is 
angelic ;  his  memory  is  myrrh  to  them ;  his  presence 
frankincense  and  flowers.  ^^^^  ^^^o  Emerson. 

An  Englishman  has  been  called  a  political  animal. 

Matthew  Arnold. 

Warfield's  definition  of  an  old-time  Whig:  A  man 
who  takes  his  toddy  regularly,  and  votes  the  Dem- 
ccratic  ticket  occasionally,  and  who  wears  raffled 
shirts. 


a .— '^— '^^-%-.-^^-^^-'.-.^.-.^.-.-'^^—^-'^-.^^.^-' — -  a 


79 


•! 


As  to  the   New  "Woman."  Sovereign  Woman. 
W^omen  are  a  new  race,  re-created  since  the  world 

received  Christianity.  Henry  ward  Beecher. 

It  is  not  that  this  century  has  discovered  woman, 
but  woman  is  discovering  at  length  what  century  she 
is  in,  and  coming  forward  to  take  her  place,  and  do 
her  duty  in  it.  ...  Men  change,  of  course,  and  for 
the  better;  but  women  are  primal,  eternal,  stationary 
facts.  They  cannot  be  changed,  and  we  are  so  afraid 
they  will  be  that  we  want  to  prohibit  it !  As  for  all 
this  talk  about  the  New  Woman,  and  the  woman's 
movement,  it   is  morbid, — local,  transient, — it   will 

pass,  and  all  be  as  before.  charlotte  Perkins  GUman. 

"You  see  the  motto,  'Heaven  help  her  who  helps 
herself,'  suits  the  New  Woman.  We're  not  a  shy, 
retiring,  uncomplaining  generation.  We're  up  to  date 
and  to  snuff,  and  every  one  of  us  is  self-supporting." 

Caroline  Ticknor. 

The  New  W^oman  wants  to  retain  all  the  privileges 
of  her  sex,  and  secure,  besides,  all  those  of  man;  she 
wants  to  be  a  man  and  to  remain  a  woman. 

Max  O'Rell. 


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V 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Dreams. 


Nothing  more  preserves  men  in  their  wits 

Than  giving  of  them  leave  to  play  by  fits, 

In  dreams  to  sport,  and  ramble  with  all  fancies, 

And  waking,  little  less  extravagances. 

The  rest  and  recreation  of  tired  thought, 

"When  'tis  run  down  with  care  and  overwrought; 

Of  which  whoever  does  not  freely  take 

His  constant  share,  is  never  broad  awake. 

Samuel  Butler. 

The  Isle  of  Lost  Dreams. 

There  is  an  Isle  beyond  our  ken. 
Haunted  by  Dreams  of  weary  men. 
Gray  Hopes  enshadow  it  with  wings, 
Weary  with  burdens  of  old  things: 
There  the  insatiate  water-springs 
Rise  with  the  tears  of  all  who  weep: 
And  deep  within  it — deep,  oh,  deep! 
The  furtive  voice  of  Sorrow  sings: 

Thee  evermore. 

Till  Time  be  o'er. 
Sad,  oh,  so  sad !  the  Dreams  of  men 
Drift  through  the  Isle  beyond  our  ken. 

William  Sharp. 





,»*•••«•■••••*  **••••••  VAaiM^ 


-••... 


As  to  Shopping.  Sovereign  Woman. 

There  are  few  people  who  wiH  not  be  benefited  by 
pondering  over  the  morals  of  shopping.  The  wish  to 
get  more  than  you  have  means  to  pay  for  is  a  wish  to 
injure  your  neighbor, — to  obtain  his  possessions  with- 
out a  just  compensation,  and  although  a  thing  may 
occasionally  come  into  our  hands  which  we  never 
could  have  had  had  it  not  been  cheap,  yet  the  uniform 
desire  to  depress  another's  property  for  the  sake  of 
making  it  our  own  is  dishonesty  in  disposition, 
whether  custom  sanctions  it  or  not. 

Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

On  Bargain  Day. 

See  the  woman  as  she  scrambles. 

How  she  shambles,  rambles,  ambles! 

See  the  woman  as  she  hustles, 

How  she  bustles,  rustles,  tussles! 

See  how  gracefully  she  scoots 

Down  the  street ;  how  she  shoots 

Around  the  comer,  through  the  door, 

And  then  into  the  notion  store, 

Where  she  buy^  a  wad  of  frills. 

And  other  things!  Selected. 


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4 


Mere  Man.  As  to  Speculation. 

Men  that  hazard  all 

Do  it  in  hope  of  fair  advantages. 

Shakespeare. 

.  .  .  Wall  Street  thinks  it  easy  for  a  millionaire 
to  be  a  man  of  his  word,  a  man  of  honor,  but  that  in 
failing  circumstances  no  man  can  be  relied  on  to  keep 

his  integrity.  I^^pj^  vValdo  Emerson. 

A  Calendar. 

Monday,  I  dabbled  in  stock  operations; 
Tuesday,  owned  millions  by  all  calculations; 
Wednesday,  my  Fifth  Avenue  palace  began; 
Thursday,  I  drove  out  a  spanking  bay  span; 
Friday,  I  gave  a  magnificent  ball; 
And  Saturday,  "smashed,"  with  nothing  at  all. 

Selected. 

There  is  no  place  on  earth  where  merit  is  so 
quickly  recognized  as  in  the  Stock  Exchange,  espe- 
cially if  it  is  backed  by  brass  and  a  good  head. 

Charles  Dudley  Warner. 


83 


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^^^ 


V 


As  to  Patriotism. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


It  is  not  too  much  to  say  of  the  women  of  a  nation 
that  they  are  the  moulds  in  which  the  souls  of  its  men 

^^^  ^^*  Emily  Pfeiffer. 

Let  the  Old  ^Vo^ld  boast  its  crowned  kings,  its 
mailed  knights,  its  ladies  of  the  court  and  castle — but 
we  of  the  New  World,  we  of  the  powerful  West,  let 
us  brim  our  cups  with  the  wine  of  undying  devotion 
and  drink  to  the  memory  of  the  Women  of  the  Revo- 
lution. Maurice  Thompson. 

Patriotic  mothers  nursed  the  infancy  of  freedom. 
Their  counsels  and  their  prayers  mingled  with  the 
deliberations  that  resulted  in  a  nation's  assertion  of 
its  independence.  They  animated  the  courage  and 
confirmed  the  self-devotion  of  those  who  ventured  all 
in  the  common  cause.  They  frowned  upon  instances 
of  coldness  or  backwardness,  and  in  the  period  of 
deepest  gloom,  cheered  and  urged  onward  the  de- 
sponding. They  willingly  shared  inevitable  dangers 
and  privations,  relinquished  without  regret  prospects 
of  advantage  to  themselves,  and  parted  with  those 
they  loved  better  than  life,  not  knowing  when  they 
were  to  meet  again.  Elizabeth  f.  EUet. 


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•v.^ 


Mere  Man. 


As  to  Patriotism. 


They  never  fail 
Who  die  in  a  great  cause. 


Lord  Byron. 


Man,  through  all  ages  of  revolving  time, 
Unchanging  man,  in  every  varying  clime. 
Deems  his  own  land  of  every  land  the  pride. 
Beloved  by  Heaven  o'er  all  the  world  beside; 
His  home,  the  spot  of  earth  supremely  blest, 
A  dearer,  sweeter  spot  than  all  the  rest. 

James  Montgomery. 

All  countries  are  a  wise  man's  home. 

Samuel  Butler. 

He  who  fights  and  runs  away 
May  live  to  fight  another  day; 
But  he  who  is  in  battle  slain 
Can  never  rise  and  fight  again. 

Oliver  Goldsmith. 

The  man  who  pauses  on  the  paths  of  treason 
Halts  on  a  quicksand — the  first  step  engulfs  him. 

Aaron  Hill. 

Every  man  is  a  cause,  a  country,  and  an  age. 

Ralph  ^Valdo  Emerson. 


85 


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N 


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,•••• 


#^••#••9  ••••••••« 


As  to  Religion. 


Sovereign  Woman. 


They  say  the  cult  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  has  done 
more  to  raise  the  status  of  women  than  any  other 
cause  at  work  since  the  daj^  of  chivalry. 

Hall  Caine. 


But  I  tell  thee,  that  those  women  who  carry  Christ 
in  their  hearts  will  not  break  faith  with  their  hus- 
bands, just  as  Christian  husbands  will  keep  faith  with 
their  wives. 


H.  Sienkiewicz. 


Sir,  a  woman  preaching  is  like  a  dog  walking  on 
his  hind  legs.  It  is  not  done  well,  but  you  are  sur- 
prised to  find  it  done  at  all.  d^.  Johnson. 

Attend  your  church,  the  parson  cries ; 

To  church  each  fair  one  goes; 
The  old  go  there  to  close  their  eyes, 

The  young  to  eye  their  clothes,    selected. 

Not  she  with  trait'rous  kiss  her  Saviour  stung, 
Not  she  denied  Him  with  unholy  tongue — 
She,  while  Apostles  shrank,  could  danger  brave, 
Last  at  His  cross,  and  earliest  at  His  grave. 

Eaton  S.  Barrett. 


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86 


i 


Mere  Man.  As  to  Religion. 

The  Christian  is  the  highest  style  of  man. 

Edward  Young-. 

"  What  shall  it  profit  a  man  if  he  gain  the  whole 
world  and  lose  his  own  soul!"  That  is  what  each 
man  of  us  must  find,  and  hold,  and  keep,  — his  own 
soul!  Apart  from  all  creeds  and  clergy,  forms  and 
rituals— that  is  the  vital  matter.  ^^^  ^^^^^ 

Men  will  wrangle  for  religion;  write  for  it;  fight 
for  it;  die  for  it;  anything  but — live  for  it. 

C.  C.  Colton. 

Alas!  'tis  not  the  creed  that  saves  the  man; 

It  is  the  man  that  justifies  the  creed ; 
And  each  must  save  his  own  soul  as  he  can, 

Since  each  is  burdened  with  a  different  need. 

Lord  Lytton. 

A  man  may  cry  Church !  Church !  at  every  word. 
With  no  more  piety  than  other  people; 

A  daw's  not  reckoned  a  religious  bird 

Because  it  keeps  a-cawing  from  a  steeple. 

Thomas  Hood. 


As  to  Finis.  Sovereign  Woman. 

A  cat  has  nine  lives,  and  a  woman  has  nine  cats' 

iiveS.  Thomas  FuUer. 

There  will  always  remain  something  to  be  said  of 
woman  as  long  as  there  is  one  on  earth.  DeBouflers. 

In  a  discussion  between  "Sovereign  "Woman"  and 
"Mere  Man"  it  usually  happens  that  the  woman  has 
the  last  word.  It  affords  her  the  same  sort  of  satis- 
faction as  to  the  child  who  cries  "Last  tag"  on  being 
called  in  from  play.  j  ^  h. 


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/•••-. 


Mere  Man.  As  to  Finis. 

All  men  think  all  men  mortal  but  themselves. 

Edward  Young. 

There  is  a  tale  of  a  man  who  spent  his  life  in 
wishing  he  had  lived  differently;  and  when  he  died 
he  was  surrounded  by  a  throng  of  spectred  shapes, 
each  one  exactly  like  the  other,  who,  on  his  asking 
what  they  were,  repUed,  "We  are  all  the  different  lives 
you  might  have  led."  Edith  wharton. 

Two  visions  by  men's  dying  eyes  are  seen, 
Both  so  unlie,  both  freighted  with  despair: 

The  lovely  shade  of  what  they  might  have  been, 
The  unclean,  gibbering  ghost  of  what  they  were. 

Theodosia  Pickering  Garrison. 

There  is  no  man  so  fortunate  that  there  shall  not 
be  by  him  when  he  is  dying  some  who  are  pleased 
with  what  is  going  to  happen.  Suppose  that  he  was 
a  good  and  wise  man,  will  there  not  be  at  last  some 
one  to  say  of  him,  Let  us  at  last  breathe  freely,  being 
relieved  from  this  school-master.  Antoninus. 


....•••••*•***•* 


— 


••••••*•♦•••••••••••••  •••,.,^^ 


Epitaph  on  Busy  Woman.  Sovereign  Woman. 

*'  Here  lies  a  poor  woman  who  always  was  busy: 
She  lived  under  pressure  that  rendered  her  dizzy. 
She  belonged  to  ten  clubs  and  read  Browning  by 

sight, 
Showed  at  luncheons  and  teas,  and  would  vote  if  she 

might; 
She  served  on  a  school  board  with  courage  and  zeal, 
She  golfed,  and  she  kodaked,  and  rode  on  a  wheel; 
She  read  Tolstoi  and  Ibsen,  knew  microbes  by  name. 
Approved  of  Delsarte,  was  a  'Daughter*  and  'Dame.' 
Her  children  went  in  for  the  top  education, 
Her  husband  went  seaward  for  nervous  prostration. 
One  day  on  her  tablets  she  found  an  hour  free — 
The  shock  was  too  great  and  she  died  instantlee." 


a.— '^^--^^^-^^^^^.-.^.-.^^  --^^--^^ — ^ 


90 


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.^> 


V" 


Mere  Man. 


Epitaph  on  Man. 


Man's  life  is  like  a  winter  day : 
Some  only  breakfast  and  away; 
Others  to  dinner  stay  and  are  fUll  fed; 
The  oldest  man  but  sups  and  goes  to  bed; 
Large  is  the  debt  who  lingers  out  the  day; 
Who  goes  the  soonest  has  the  least  to  pay. 
Death  is  the  waiter — some  few  run  on  tick, 
And  some,  alas !  must  pay  the  bill  to  Nick. 
Tho'  owed  I  much,  I  hope  long  trust  is  given, 
And  truly  mean  to  pay  all  debts  in  heav'n. 

(On  a  tombstone  at  Barnwell,  England.) 

As  to  Dying 

"When  some  men  die  it  is  as  if  you  had  lost  your 
pen-knife,  and  were  subject  to  perpetual  inconvenience 
until  you  could  get  another.  Other  men's  going  is  like 
the  vanishing  of  a  great  mountain  from  the  landscape, 
and  the  outlook  of  life  is  changed  forever. 

Phillips  Brooks. 


Qx 


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